Publication Date
2022
Description
This essay argues for the conceptual connection of legitimacy, resistance and ‘the people’ within liberal theories of public justification by making two primary claims: that legitimacy and resistance are mutually constitutive of one another and that together legitimacy and resistance are constitutive of an aspirational conception of ‘the people’. These claims revolve around the idea that the legitimacy of democratic regimes necessarily entails the questioning of that legitimacy through resistance, which concerns demands that say something about the makeup of ‘the people’. The concern is conceptual, examples of resistance showing how the conceptual connection manifests itself.
Journal
Philosophy and Social Criticism
Department
Philosophy
Link to Published Version
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01914537221110899
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/01914537221110899
Recommended Citation
Burgos, Adam. "Legitimacy, Resistance and the Stakes of Politics." (2022) .