Belén Pueyo-Ibáñez Postdoctoral Fellow Aufenthalt am Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften: Oktober 2023 – Juli 2024Forschungsthema am Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften: »The Democratic Sentiment: Rethinking Politics through the Lens of Affect«Projektbeschreibung: Overly intellectualistic conceptions of democracy—which, for much of the last century, have been predominant both inside and outside academia—have emphasized its rational character while overlooking, if not explicitly rejecting, the possibility of its connection to the emotional dimension of human experience. The false dichotomy between reason and emotion on which approaches of this sort rely is responsible for the distorted account according to which democratic attitudes and actions are fundamentally governed by the intellect—understood as devoid of any sentimental component—whereas anti-democratic ones are primarily moved by the passions. However, are not the former as emotionally driven as the latter? My contention is that they certainly are, although not by sentiments of indifference or hostility, of course, but of care and compassion. In my project, I intend to defend the hypothesis that the democratic sentiment—the term under which I group a variety of affiliative emotions—precedes both logically and temporally the democratic order, which means that the former is required for the possibility of the latter. Elaborating on some of the themes I explored in my doctoral dissertation, I thus aim to delve into the emotional depths of social and political life and thereby make a significant contribution to a much-needed affective turn in democratic theory. (Belén Pueyo-Ibáñez) Zusammenarbeit: Belén Pueyo-Ibáñez folgt einer Einladung von Rainer Forst, Professor für Politische Theorie an der Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main, und dem an der Universität angesiedelten Justitia Centre for Advanced Studies, das von der Alfons und Gertrud Kassel Stiftung gefördert wird. Wissenschaftliches Profil von Belén Pueyo-IbáñezBelén Pueyo- Ibáñez hat im Frühjahr 2023 im Fach Philosohie mit einer Arbeit über (Im)possible Communities: The Cooperative Structure of Moral Thinking an der Emory University in Atlanta promoviert. Zuvor hat sie an der New School for Social Research Philosophie studiert, an der Goldsmiths University zeitgenössische Kunstgeschichte sowie Journalismus und Musik in Barcelona. Ihre Arbeit wurde u. a. gefördert von der Emory University, The New School for Social Research, The Fulbright Program, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.Website: Forschungsschwerpunkte: Moralphilosophie, politische Theorie, Gesellschaftstheorie; philosophische Psychologie; Kritische Theorie (Jürgen Habermas); amerikanischer Pragmatismus (John Dewey)Veröffentlichungen (Auswahl):
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