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ABSTRACT
Instead of a conclusion, this special issue ends with a discussion between Liah Greenfeld, on the one hand, and Uriel Abulof and Markus Kornprobst, on the other hand, about the merits of studying public justification and how best to do so. Greenfeld suggests that public justification is predicated on the autonomy of the political sphere, the importance ascribed to public views, and to the prevalence of justification. Seeing public justification as ultimately a cultural phenomenon, this caveat urges scholars to study it in only specific historical contexts, which are, for now, limited to predominantly ‘Western liberal democracies’.
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Notes on contributor
Liah Greenfeld is the author of, among other publications, a trilogy on nationalism and modernity: Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity, The Spirit of Capitalism: Nationalism and Economic Growth, and Mind, Modernity, Madness: The impact of Culture on Human Experience (Harvard University Press, 1992, 2001, 2013). She is University Professor and Professor of Sociology, Political Science, and Anthropology at Boston University.