Sharon R Krause
Biographic Data
| ID | 4247348 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sharon R Krause |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sharon R |
| FAMILY NAME | Krause |
| SIGNATURE | KRAUSE S R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5026-1784 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 118 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The depths of freedom: Comments on Adriana Alfaro Altamirano’s The Belief In Intuition
Political respect for nature
Political respect for nature is an important part of cultivating a more emancipatory and ecologically sustainable politics. As a political principle, it can supplement respect for persons with institutional mechanisms that formally constrain how human power may be exercised over non-human beings and things and that require us to use our power in ways that are attentive to nature’s well-being along with our own. Moreover, when internalized by citi…
Environmental Domination
In their vulnerability to arbitrary, exploitative uses of human power, many of Earth’s nonhuman parts are subject to environmental domination. People too are subject to environmental domination in ways that include but also extend beyond the special environmental burdens borne by those who are poor and marginalized. Despite the substantial inequalities that exist among us as human beings, we are all captured and exploited by the eco-damaging coll…
Constitutional Patriotism, Moral Sentiment, and International Human Rights
This essay explores resources for motivating allegiance to international human rights, drawing in particular on the work of Jürgen Habermas and David Hume. It examines the ideal of constitutional patriotism as developed by Habermas and identifies limitations of that ideal in the international context. Hume’s concept of moral sentiment is then examined, specifically its ability to generate an impartial but affectively engaged moral standpoint with…
Citizenship for a New World
This paper highlights contributions of A Democratic Bearing, especially its conceptualization of domination and the demos, and argues that the liberal limitation of power (economic, social and political) is an important supplement to deliberative democracy in sustaining the ‘democratic bearing’ model of citizenship that the book calls for
Politics beyond Persons: Political Theory and the Non-human
Contesting the assumptions that orient political life has been the business of political theory at least since Socrates. Countless dogmas have been disabled over the years by the prick of the philosopher’s pen—and by the public critique and political action it inspired. Today the vanguard of the field is challenging what is perhaps the oldest, deepest, and most entrenched dogma of all: the idea that political standing applies exclusively to perso…
Freedom Beyond Sovereignty: Reconstructing Liberal Individualism
Beyond non-domination: Agency, inequality and the meaning of freedom
The concept of non-domination is an important contribution to the study of freedom but it does not comprehend the whole of freedom. Insofar as domination requires a conscious capacity for control on the part of the dominant party, it fails to capture important threats to individual freedom that permeate many contemporary liberal democracies today. Much of the racism, sexism and other cultural biases that currently constrain the life-chances of me…
Plural Freedom
Some of the most interesting and important work on freedom in recent years has been produced by feminist theorists (e.g., Friedman 2003; Hirschmann 2003; Nedelsky 2011; Zerilli 2005; and see Anker, forthcoming). Feminist theory has also generated important insights about the character and conditions of human agency, the intersectional nature of human identities, and the dynamics of political action that richly enhance our understanding of freedom…
Contested Questions, Current Trajectories: Feminism in Political Theory Today
I once mentioned to a prominent feminist scholar that I was using one of her books in my course on feminism and political theory. She looked at me blankly for a moment and then replied, “Feminismandpolitical theory? I thought feminismispolitical theory.” She was right of course; in some sense, everything that is feminist theory is also political theory. Feminism illuminates gendered relations of power in politics and social life, after all, and i…
Bodies in Action: Corporeal Agency and Democratic Politics
A better appreciation of the material, distributed quality of human agency can illuminate subtle dynamics of domination and oppression and reveal resources for potentially liberatory political action. Materialist accounts of agency nevertheless pose challenges to the notion of personal responsibility that is so crucial to political obligation and democratic citizenship. To guard against this danger, we need to sustain the close connection between…
Empathy, Democratic Politics, and the Impartial Juror
Prevailing views of impartiality in law fail to see the important contributions that properly structured sentiments can make to the impartial deliberation of jurors. This article suggests a new approach to impartial judgment and new criteria for the impartial juror. Central to this account is a normative theory of empathy as the legally appropriate communication of sentiments that are democratically endorsable. The cultivation of the requisite em…
Civil Passions: Moral Sentiment and Democratic Deliberation
Must we put passions aside when we deliberate about justice? Can we do so? The dominant views of deliberation rightly emphasize the importance of impartiality as a cornerstone of fair decision making, but they wrongly assume that impartiality means being disengaged and passionless. In Civil Passions , Sharon Krause argues that moral and political deliberation must incorporate passions, even as she insists on the value of impartiality. Drawing on …
Brains, Citizens, and Democracy's New Nobility
Brains, Citizens, and Democracy’s New Nobility Sharon R. Krause (bio) Connolly, William E. Neuropolitics: Thinking, Culture, Speed. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. 216 pages. ISBN 081664022X. $19.95. William E. Connolly’s Neuropolitics is the first effort to bring recent advances in neuroscience to bear on political theory in a sustained and systematic way. Others have alluded to the suggestive implications that these advances m…
Laws, passion, and the attractions of right action in Montesquieu
This article examines Montesquieu's concept of natural law and treatment of legal customs in conjunction with his theory of moral psychology. It explores his effort to entwine the rational procedural quality of laws with the substantive principles that sustain them. Montesquieu grounds natural law in the desires of the human being as ‘a feeling creature’, thus establishing the normative force of desire and making right action attractive by engagi…
Desiring Justice: Motivation and Justification in Rawls and Habermas
Two Concepts of Liberty in Montesquieu
(2005). Two Concepts of Liberty in Montesquieu. Perspectives on Political Science: Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 88-96
Hume and the (False) Luster of Justice
The close connection between norms and motives that is characteristic of Hume’s moral theory threatens to break down when it comes to the political matter of justice. Here a gap arises between the moral approval of justice, which is based on its utility, and the desires that motivate just action, which utility cannot fully explain. Therefore the obligation to justice may seem to be motivationally unsupported. This difficulty is compounded by the …
The Uncertain Inevitability of Decline in Montesquieu
Lady Liberty’s allure: Political agency, citizenship and The Second Sex
Conceiving political agency in terms of an interaction between the categories that Simone de Beauvoir called ‘immanence’ and ‘transcendence’ illuminates the role that attachments and desires play in supporting commitments to abstract principles of political right, and so clarifies the structure and sources of political agency. Communitarians and feminist theorists have shown in recent years that attachments to particular others can support a stro…
The Spirit of Separate Powers in Montesquieu
Montesquieu's theory of separate powers is elaborated in a discussion of the constitution of England in Book XI, chapter 6 ofThe Spirit of the Laws, which is by far the most discussed section of that work. Many commentators have interpreted the English system straightforwardly as Montesquieu's ideal regime. But while he greatly admires the legal separation of powers in the English constitution, he worries that the spirit of “extreme” liberty amon…
The Politics of Distinction and Disobedience: Honor and the Defense of Liberty in Montesquieu
Elaborating Montesquieu's concept of honor illuminates a dimension of his liberalism that has been neglected by prior commentary, and calls attention to a form of political motivation that has been overlooked in contemporary political theory. While honor avoids the anti-liberal tendencies of civic virtue, it can motivate, better than self-interest does, the extraordinary acts of courage and sacrifice sometimes needed to sustain individual liberti…
Hierarchical Complexity of Tasks Shows the Existence of Developmental Stages
Bodies in Action: Corporeal Agency and Democratic Politics
A better appreciation of the material, distributed quality of human agency can illuminate subtle dynamics of domination and oppression and reveal resources for potentially liberatory political action. Materialist accounts of agency nevertheless pose challenges to the notion of personal responsibility that is so crucial to political obligation and democratic citizenship. To guard against this danger, we need to sustain the close connection between…
Beyond non-domination: Agency, inequality and the meaning of freedom
The concept of non-domination is an important contribution to the study of freedom but it does not comprehend the whole of freedom. Insofar as domination requires a conscious capacity for control on the part of the dominant party, it fails to capture important threats to individual freedom that permeate many contemporary liberal democracies today. Much of the racism, sexism and other cultural biases that currently constrain the life-chances of me…
Desiring Justice: Motivation and Justification in Rawls and Habermas
Environmental Domination
In their vulnerability to arbitrary, exploitative uses of human power, many of Earth’s nonhuman parts are subject to environmental domination. People too are subject to environmental domination in ways that include but also extend beyond the special environmental burdens borne by those who are poor and marginalized. Despite the substantial inequalities that exist among us as human beings, we are all captured and exploited by the eco-damaging coll…
Contested Questions, Current Trajectories: Feminism in Political Theory Today
I once mentioned to a prominent feminist scholar that I was using one of her books in my course on feminism and political theory. She looked at me blankly for a moment and then replied, “Feminismandpolitical theory? I thought feminismispolitical theory.” She was right of course; in some sense, everything that is feminist theory is also political theory. Feminism illuminates gendered relations of power in politics and social life, after all, and i…
The Spirit of Separate Powers in Montesquieu
Montesquieu's theory of separate powers is elaborated in a discussion of the constitution of England in Book XI, chapter 6 ofThe Spirit of the Laws, which is by far the most discussed section of that work. Many commentators have interpreted the English system straightforwardly as Montesquieu's ideal regime. But while he greatly admires the legal separation of powers in the English constitution, he worries that the spirit of “extreme” liberty amon…
Hume and the (False) Luster of Justice
The close connection between norms and motives that is characteristic of Hume’s moral theory threatens to break down when it comes to the political matter of justice. Here a gap arises between the moral approval of justice, which is based on its utility, and the desires that motivate just action, which utility cannot fully explain. Therefore the obligation to justice may seem to be motivationally unsupported. This difficulty is compounded by the …
Plural Freedom
Some of the most interesting and important work on freedom in recent years has been produced by feminist theorists (e.g., Friedman 2003; Hirschmann 2003; Nedelsky 2011; Zerilli 2005; and see Anker, forthcoming). Feminist theory has also generated important insights about the character and conditions of human agency, the intersectional nature of human identities, and the dynamics of political action that richly enhance our understanding of freedom…
The Uncertain Inevitability of Decline in Montesquieu
The Politics of Distinction and Disobedience: Honor and the Defense of Liberty in Montesquieu
Elaborating Montesquieu's concept of honor illuminates a dimension of his liberalism that has been neglected by prior commentary, and calls attention to a form of political motivation that has been overlooked in contemporary political theory. While honor avoids the anti-liberal tendencies of civic virtue, it can motivate, better than self-interest does, the extraordinary acts of courage and sacrifice sometimes needed to sustain individual liberti…
Politics beyond Persons: Political Theory and the Non-human
Contesting the assumptions that orient political life has been the business of political theory at least since Socrates. Countless dogmas have been disabled over the years by the prick of the philosopher’s pen—and by the public critique and political action it inspired. Today the vanguard of the field is challenging what is perhaps the oldest, deepest, and most entrenched dogma of all: the idea that political standing applies exclusively to perso…
Empathy, Democratic Politics, and the Impartial Juror
Prevailing views of impartiality in law fail to see the important contributions that properly structured sentiments can make to the impartial deliberation of jurors. This article suggests a new approach to impartial judgment and new criteria for the impartial juror. Central to this account is a normative theory of empathy as the legally appropriate communication of sentiments that are democratically endorsable. The cultivation of the requisite em…
Political respect for nature
Political respect for nature is an important part of cultivating a more emancipatory and ecologically sustainable politics. As a political principle, it can supplement respect for persons with institutional mechanisms that formally constrain how human power may be exercised over non-human beings and things and that require us to use our power in ways that are attentive to nature’s well-being along with our own. Moreover, when internalized by citi…
Constitutional Patriotism, Moral Sentiment, and International Human Rights
This essay explores resources for motivating allegiance to international human rights, drawing in particular on the work of Jürgen Habermas and David Hume. It examines the ideal of constitutional patriotism as developed by Habermas and identifies limitations of that ideal in the international context. Hume’s concept of moral sentiment is then examined, specifically its ability to generate an impartial but affectively engaged moral standpoint with…
Two Concepts of Liberty in Montesquieu
(2005). Two Concepts of Liberty in Montesquieu. Perspectives on Political Science: Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 88-96
Hierarchical Complexity of Tasks Shows the Existence of Developmental Stages
The Politics of Distinction and Disobedience: Honor and the Defense of Liberty in Montesquieu
Elaborating Montesquieu's concept of honor illuminates a dimension of his liberalism that has been neglected by prior commentary, and calls attention to a form of political motivation that has been overlooked in contemporary political theory. While honor avoids the anti-liberal tendencies of civic virtue, it can motivate, better than self-interest does, the extraordinary acts of courage and sacrifice sometimes needed to sustain individual liberti…
Lady Liberty’s allure: Political agency, citizenship and The Second Sex
Conceiving political agency in terms of an interaction between the categories that Simone de Beauvoir called ‘immanence’ and ‘transcendence’ illuminates the role that attachments and desires play in supporting commitments to abstract principles of political right, and so clarifies the structure and sources of political agency. Communitarians and feminist theorists have shown in recent years that attachments to particular others can support a stro…
The Spirit of Separate Powers in Montesquieu
Montesquieu's theory of separate powers is elaborated in a discussion of the constitution of England in Book XI, chapter 6 ofThe Spirit of the Laws, which is by far the most discussed section of that work. Many commentators have interpreted the English system straightforwardly as Montesquieu's ideal regime. But while he greatly admires the legal separation of powers in the English constitution, he worries that the spirit of “extreme” liberty amon…
The Uncertain Inevitability of Decline in Montesquieu
Hume and the (False) Luster of Justice
The close connection between norms and motives that is characteristic of Hume’s moral theory threatens to break down when it comes to the political matter of justice. Here a gap arises between the moral approval of justice, which is based on its utility, and the desires that motivate just action, which utility cannot fully explain. Therefore the obligation to justice may seem to be motivationally unsupported. This difficulty is compounded by the …
Desiring Justice: Motivation and Justification in Rawls and Habermas
Two Concepts of Liberty in Montesquieu
(2005). Two Concepts of Liberty in Montesquieu. Perspectives on Political Science: Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 88-96
Brains, Citizens, and Democracy's New Nobility
Brains, Citizens, and Democracy’s New Nobility Sharon R. Krause (bio) Connolly, William E. Neuropolitics: Thinking, Culture, Speed. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. 216 pages. ISBN 081664022X. $19.95. William E. Connolly’s Neuropolitics is the first effort to bring recent advances in neuroscience to bear on political theory in a sustained and systematic way. Others have alluded to the suggestive implications that these advances m…
Laws, passion, and the attractions of right action in Montesquieu
This article examines Montesquieu's concept of natural law and treatment of legal customs in conjunction with his theory of moral psychology. It explores his effort to entwine the rational procedural quality of laws with the substantive principles that sustain them. Montesquieu grounds natural law in the desires of the human being as ‘a feeling creature’, thus establishing the normative force of desire and making right action attractive by engagi…
Civil Passions: Moral Sentiment and Democratic Deliberation
Must we put passions aside when we deliberate about justice? Can we do so? The dominant views of deliberation rightly emphasize the importance of impartiality as a cornerstone of fair decision making, but they wrongly assume that impartiality means being disengaged and passionless. In Civil Passions , Sharon Krause argues that moral and political deliberation must incorporate passions, even as she insists on the value of impartiality. Drawing on …
Empathy, Democratic Politics, and the Impartial Juror
Prevailing views of impartiality in law fail to see the important contributions that properly structured sentiments can make to the impartial deliberation of jurors. This article suggests a new approach to impartial judgment and new criteria for the impartial juror. Central to this account is a normative theory of empathy as the legally appropriate communication of sentiments that are democratically endorsable. The cultivation of the requisite em…
Contested Questions, Current Trajectories: Feminism in Political Theory Today
I once mentioned to a prominent feminist scholar that I was using one of her books in my course on feminism and political theory. She looked at me blankly for a moment and then replied, “Feminismandpolitical theory? I thought feminismispolitical theory.” She was right of course; in some sense, everything that is feminist theory is also political theory. Feminism illuminates gendered relations of power in politics and social life, after all, and i…
Bodies in Action: Corporeal Agency and Democratic Politics
A better appreciation of the material, distributed quality of human agency can illuminate subtle dynamics of domination and oppression and reveal resources for potentially liberatory political action. Materialist accounts of agency nevertheless pose challenges to the notion of personal responsibility that is so crucial to political obligation and democratic citizenship. To guard against this danger, we need to sustain the close connection between…
Plural Freedom
Some of the most interesting and important work on freedom in recent years has been produced by feminist theorists (e.g., Friedman 2003; Hirschmann 2003; Nedelsky 2011; Zerilli 2005; and see Anker, forthcoming). Feminist theory has also generated important insights about the character and conditions of human agency, the intersectional nature of human identities, and the dynamics of political action that richly enhance our understanding of freedom…
Beyond non-domination: Agency, inequality and the meaning of freedom
The concept of non-domination is an important contribution to the study of freedom but it does not comprehend the whole of freedom. Insofar as domination requires a conscious capacity for control on the part of the dominant party, it fails to capture important threats to individual freedom that permeate many contemporary liberal democracies today. Much of the racism, sexism and other cultural biases that currently constrain the life-chances of me…
Freedom Beyond Sovereignty: Reconstructing Liberal Individualism
Politics beyond Persons: Political Theory and the Non-human
Contesting the assumptions that orient political life has been the business of political theory at least since Socrates. Countless dogmas have been disabled over the years by the prick of the philosopher’s pen—and by the public critique and political action it inspired. Today the vanguard of the field is challenging what is perhaps the oldest, deepest, and most entrenched dogma of all: the idea that political standing applies exclusively to perso…
Constitutional Patriotism, Moral Sentiment, and International Human Rights
This essay explores resources for motivating allegiance to international human rights, drawing in particular on the work of Jürgen Habermas and David Hume. It examines the ideal of constitutional patriotism as developed by Habermas and identifies limitations of that ideal in the international context. Hume’s concept of moral sentiment is then examined, specifically its ability to generate an impartial but affectively engaged moral standpoint with…
Citizenship for a New World
This paper highlights contributions of A Democratic Bearing, especially its conceptualization of domination and the demos, and argues that the liberal limitation of power (economic, social and political) is an important supplement to deliberative democracy in sustaining the ‘democratic bearing’ model of citizenship that the book calls for
Environmental Domination
In their vulnerability to arbitrary, exploitative uses of human power, many of Earth’s nonhuman parts are subject to environmental domination. People too are subject to environmental domination in ways that include but also extend beyond the special environmental burdens borne by those who are poor and marginalized. Despite the substantial inequalities that exist among us as human beings, we are all captured and exploited by the eco-damaging coll…
Political respect for nature
Political respect for nature is an important part of cultivating a more emancipatory and ecologically sustainable politics. As a political principle, it can supplement respect for persons with institutional mechanisms that formally constrain how human power may be exercised over non-human beings and things and that require us to use our power in ways that are attentive to nature’s well-being along with our own. Moreover, when internalized by citi…
The depths of freedom: Comments on Adriana Alfaro Altamirano’s The Belief In Intuition
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