Abstract
epistemological point of view. In this paper, we develop an underappreciated aspect of the trouble with public discourse: what we call the Listening Problem. The listening
problem is the problem that public discourse has in giving appropriate uptake and
reception to ideas and concepts from oppressed groups. Drawing on the work of Jürgen Habermas and Nancy Fraser, we develop an institutional response to the listening problem: the establishment of what we call Receptive Publics, discursive spaces designed to improve listening skills and to give space for counterhegemonic ideas.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 113-149 |
| Number of pages | 37 |
| Journal | Ergo |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| Early online date | 3 May 2024 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2024 |
Funding
Thanks to Aidan McGlynn, Katharine Jenkins, Federico Luzzi, Fay Niker, Fil-ipa Melo Lopes, Zara Bain, Ola Michalec, Susan Notess, Ruth Whateley, Robert Williams, Rowan Cruft, Fabienne Peter, Jonathan Heawood, two anonymous reviewers and an area editor for this journal. Joshua Habgood-Coote received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union\u2019s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 818633). Natalie Alana Ashton received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) as part of the project \u2018The Social Epistemology of Argumenta-tion\u2019 (grant no. ERC-2017-CoG 771074). We also benefitted from exchanges with Ashton\u2019s colleagues Rowan Cruft, Jonathan Heawood, and Fabienne Peter in the context of their ARHC project \u2018Norms for the New Public Sphere\u2019.
| Funders | Funder number |
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| European Research Council | |
| Horizon 2020 Framework Programme | ERC-2017-CoG 771074, 818633 |