Daniel Innerarity is a professor of social and political philosophy whose work delves into the profound impacts of modern technologies and globalization on society. He critically examines the complexities of our contemporary world, seeking innovative forms of democracy and governance amidst information overload. His research also addresses the ethical challenges posed by rapid technological advancements, exploring pathways toward building a more just and sustainable future. Innerarity's analyses provide insightful perspectives on the intricate social and political issues of our era.
Focusing on the philosophical dimensions of the European Union's evolution, the book emphasizes the need for conceptual innovation to address its challenges. It critiques traditional financial and institutional fixes, advocating for new interpretations of democracy amidst the complexities of globalization and social change. By reexamining foundational concepts, the author provides a fresh perspective on the EU crisis, making it a valuable resource for students and scholars of EU politics, political theory, and philosophy.
Exploring the legal, philosophical, and political dimensions of hospitality, this book presents an ethics that embraces the unexpected and the unfamiliar. It posits that human existence is shaped by responses to the world's invitations rather than solely by individual choices. By advocating for a hospitality that welcomes surprise, the author critiques the tendency of law to restrict unpredictability, inviting readers to reconsider their relationship with strangers, the future, and the essence of life itself.
This volume in the Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy series extends democracy to knowledge in two ways. First, it argues that the issues science seeks to clarify are relevant for all citizens. Second, it explains that the fundamental problems faced by any democracy, such as the economic crisis, are not so much problems of political will as cognitive failures that must be resolved through both a greater knowledge of the realities over which we govern and a fine-tuning of the tools of governance. In fact, knowledge and related fields are spheres in which not only economic prosperity, but also democratic quality, are determined. Thus politics of knowledge and through knowledge has become a question of democratic citizenship. After introducing the concept of governing knowledge, the book discusses the political action of collective organization of uncertainty, before developing the idea of the cognitive challenge of the economy, revealed by today's economic crisis. A groundbreaking work by a renowned philosopher, it will be an accessible and fundamental resource for anyone interested in the relation of power to knowledge.
Nowadays, politics is only one voice among many in the concert of social self-organization. Its function is to articulate the differentiated systems of our societies: it encourages their self-restraint, while at the same time restraining itself. Such a conception obviously threatens the primacy of the nation-state. While it is not necessarily disappearing, it must nevertheless cease to be thought of as a dominant principle of organization, and must assume its place in a system of regulation that proceeds on several levels. Distant from the anarchist or Marxist theories that herald the end of the state as it is from libertarian theories of the minimal state, the book illustrates that it is possible in the contemporary period to go beyond the alternatives of dirigisme and neoliberal spontaneity. However, such a transformation can only prove effective through two conditions: we must first reject the enduring opposition between Right and Left, and second, we must invent an anti-state social democracy that is able in its own right to glean the most it can out of the liberal legacy. This book combines philosophical technicality, clarity and elegance of writing in an attempt to provide politics with meaning again, particularly in an era where discourse about its powerlessness abounds.
