Public Philosophy and Democratic Resilience
Abstract
First, taking into account some of the key events in our recent history (the Fall of the Berlin Wall, 9/11, the Financial Crisis, and the Covid-19 pandemic) I explore in a second place the relation between ethics and resilience, a concept that has been reintroduced in our vocabulary by a new generation of writers on IR and Security Studies. My intention is to point that resilience has to be considered as something more than an individual faculty to recover from trauma or overcoming difficulties in daily life. Indeed, this could expose discourse on resilience to the criticism of being another strategy for governability in a neoliberal order. In order to build my argument I will connect in a third place the idea of resilience with that of public reason, as this concept has developed in democratic thought, taking into account some of its actual problems, which are related with the new technologies of communication. Resilience, so understood, could offer us a new ethos for the future of democracy.
Keywords:
liberalism, democracy, new technologies, communication, ethics, resilienceReferences
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