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Cosmopolitan Norms and the Art of Deliberation: Beyond Forgiveness


Author(s) : Yusef Waghid, Chikumbutso Herbert Manthalu, Judith Terblanche, Faiq Waghid, Zayd Waghid
Cosmopolitan Education and Inclusion

Abstract


In this chapter, we use Seyla Benhabib’s understanding of universalism that centres difference in conceptualising cosmopolitanism. Cosmopolitanism, following Benhabib, is more plausible if it invokes a conceptualisation of universalism that privileges subjectivities in the constitution of our individual and collective autonomy as humans. In this chapter, we contend that a difference-based notion of cosmopolitanism can guide democratic iterations underscored by communicative freedom. We specifically draw on Seyla Benhabib’s thoughts on democratic iterations to show how cosmopolitan human encounters might be extended further. Her view of democratic iterations is apposite to the cultivation of a cosmopolitanism-in-becoming in the sense that, as we shall show, iterations within themselves are both democratic and deliberative acts of human engagement—those acts of engagement that seem to be commensurate with cosmopolitan norms of human engagement.


Original language en
Pages (from-to) 17-28
Publication status Published - 2020

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