%0 Journal Article
%T Receptivity and judgment
%A Jennifer Nedelsky
%J Ethics & Global Politics
%D 2011
%I Co-Action Publishing
%R 10.3402/egp.v4i4.15116
%X Both judgment and receptivity are important to optimal politics, and both are important to each other. In making this argument, I use an Arendtian conception of judgment and take mindfulness as an example of receptivity. I argue that receptivity offers a needed dimension to addressing the puzzles of what makes Arendtian judgment possible, and that judgment provides a necessary complement to receptivity for action in the world. Exploring this complementary relation between judgment and receptivity also reveals a surprising similarity between what each offers to the practice of politics, in particular to freedom and the possibility of transformation. At the same time, I argue, these important contributions to politics are best understood and realized if judgment and receptivity are thought of as distinct forms of relating to the world.
%K judgment
%K mindfulness
%K receptivity
%K Arendt
%K political transformation
%K Kant
%K enlarged mentality
%K perspective
%K freedom
%U http://www.ethicsandglobalpolitics.net/index.php/egp/article/view/15116/18513