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<p>The contemporary multiple knowledge crisis sets under pressure both democracy and democracy theory. Radical democratic approaches in particular must see themselves confronted with the accusation according to which “truth-sceptical” approaches, embracing a&#xa0;contingency-centred and hence post-objectivist conception of truth, fuelled this very crisis. In this article, I&#xa0;argue, contrary to these views, that it is precisely the post-fundamentalist movement of thought constitutive of radical democratic theory that opens up a&#xa0;critical-normative mode of questioning through whose lens the knowledge crisis’ ambivalent discourses can be exposed with regard to their democracy-subversive potentials. To this end, I&#xa0;establish radical democratic theory as a&#xa0;practice of critical normativity by situating it at the discursive nexus between the rejection of universal normativity on the one hand and the necessity of critical-normative positioning on the other. The core argument holds that radical democratic theory as a&#xa0;critical stance does by no means generate a&#xa0;realm of epistemic arbitrariness, simply because it points to the socio-historical-political emergence of knowledge orders. Instead, precisely because it conceptualizes the constitutive openness of the political, its inception as a&#xa0;questioning practice against both the “post-truth” regime, as well as its contemporary counter-epistemisations is rendered possible.</p>

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Befragung der multiplen Wissenskrise: Radikale Demokratietheorie als Praxis kritischer Normativität

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    2025年3月3日

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  • Ricardo Kelm

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The contemporary multiple knowledge crisis sets under pressure both democracy and democracy theory. Radical democratic approaches in particular must see themselves confronted with the accusation according to which “truth-sceptical” approaches, embracing a contingency-centred and hence post-objectivist conception of truth, fuelled this very crisis. In this article, I argue, contrary to these views, that it is precisely the post-fundamentalist movement of thought constitutive of radical democratic theory that opens up a critical-normative mode of questioning through whose lens the knowledge crisis’ ambivalent discourses can be exposed with regard to their democracy-subversive potentials. To this end, I establish radical democratic theory as a practice of critical normativity by situating it at the discursive nexus between the rejection of universal normativity on the one hand and the necessity of critical-normative positioning on the other. The core argument holds that radical democratic theory as a critical stance does by no means generate a realm of epistemic arbitrariness, simply because it points to the socio-historical-political emergence of knowledge orders. Instead, precisely because it conceptualizes the constitutive openness of the political, its inception as a questioning practice against both the “post-truth” regime, as well as its contemporary counter-epistemisations is rendered possible.