Sublime

community is defined by the social norms shared by its members, while a state’s jurisdiction falls on all those who live in its territory.

If democracy is the horizon, self-governance is a plausible practice for moving in that direction. Governable spaces, then, are where democratic self-governance can happen.

As citizens, he argued, we need two essential moral “powers” or “capacities.” First, the “capacity for a conception of the good”—in other words, the ability to reflect on and pursue our own idea of how we want to live. Second, the “capacity for a sense of justice”—the ability to form our own view about how we should organize society, and to coopera

Brandom’s complex alternative is that our descriptions constitute a system of socially constituted rational commitments, and that only linguistic rules, socially articulated and enforced, are capable of giving our words any meaning at all. Saying something meaningful requires making explicit what is already implicit in our use of concepts, rather t

The labor has to be social, in the sense that communities make fact-finding possible and attractive for individuals. Factuality requires institutions, above all investigative reporting.

In dealing with these cases, we are in the awkward but frequent situation of having created a policy (here formality) to prevent injustice but knowing that strictly applying the policy will cause injustice.

rule of law continues to play a central role in the context of the contemporary passage: right remains effective and (precisely by means of the state of exception and police techniques) becomes procedure. This is a radical transformation that reveals the unmediated relationship between power and subjectivities,