Chaired by: Prof.
Dr. Rainer Forst (Professor für Politische Theorie und Philosophie,
Goethe-Universität)
Gebäude “Normative
Ordnungen"
Raum EG.01
Max-Horkheimer-Str. 2
60323 Frankfurt am
Main
In the face of a widely diagnosed “crisis of democracy,"
calls for more trust and social cohesion are commonplace. But to what extent is
democracy a matter of trust? Might distrust and skepticism also have their
place in democratic politics? If so, what should these attitudes be like not to
undermine and even strengthen democracies and the processes through which
conflicts and disagreement are dealt with? In his lecture 'On Distrust in
Democracy,' Prof. Dr. Jan-Werner Müller (Princeton) will respond to these
questions. His keynote is part of a workshop on the liberalism of fear in times
of democratic distrust, which takes a more in-depth look at the democratic
theory of the liberalism of fear as it may be developed with and beyond Judith
N Shklar. At a time of uncertainty when democracy finds itself under serious
pressure from authoritarian populism, polarization, and ideological illusions
of the heart and the head, her political thought holds out the promise to offer
some alternative resources for democratic theory.
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