Volume 9, Number 3
December 2015
DISCUSSION

On the Democratic Value of Distrust

Volume 9, Number 3, December 2015, Pages 1–6
https://doi.org/10.26556/jesp.v9i3.180
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Abstract

In her paper ”(White) Tyranny and the Democratic Value of Distrust,” Meena Krishnamurthy argues that distrust has a political value that has often been overlooked by democratic theorists. She pursues this argument by developing an account of distrust from Martin Luther King Jr. and exploring the role that King’s distrust played in the Black Civil Rights Movement. In this discussion note, I argue that an alternative account of distrust from recent work by Katherine Hawley can better capture distrust ‘s democratic value, and moreover might reveal how that value is noninstrumental, in contrast with the contingent and instrumental value granted to distrust on Krishnamurthy’s account.
Copyright © 2015 Erich Hatala Matthes
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