Politics as Relational Praxis

* Book: Fred Dallmayr, Democracy to Come: Politics as Relational Praxis (Oxford University Press, 2017).

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Discussion

Erik Haines:

". In Dallmayr’s formulation, democracy is not a fixed, procedural institution to be defensively exported or mechanically managed by a technocratic elite. It is a “promise perpetually arriving”—a demanding, relational askesis that requires continuous self-transformation, ethical cultivation, and a capacity to hold cognitive and cultural dissonance. To construct a “democracy to come” is to recognize that structural integration on a political scale requires a corresponding psychological flexibility on an individual scale. Without the capacity for defusion, acceptance, and perspective-taking, the encounter with deep civilizational difference inevitably triggers a defensive regression into tribalism, balkanization, or the demand for authoritarian order."

(https://www.erikhaines.org/p/a-short-history-of-the-integral-left)