In this article I discuss the advantages of a theory of political representation for a pragmatist theory of (global) democracy. I first outline Dewey’s disregard for political representation by analyzing the political, epistemological and aesthetic underpinnings of his criticism of the Enlightenment ideal of democracy and its trust in the power of the detached gaze. I then show that a theory of political representation is not only compatible with a pragmatist Deweyan-pragmatist perspective on democratic politics but also that Dewey’s concept of “publics”, if applied to contemporary circumstances of globalized politics, requires such a theory. I suggest a pragmatic theory of political representation that combines elements of Dewey’s aesthetics, particularly his own theory of vision, with Michael Saward’s conception of representative claim-making into the notion of aesthetic democratic representation.

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实用主义视角下的政治代表：审美民主代表

在本文中，我将讨论政治代表理论对于（全球）民主的实用主义理论的优势。我首先通过分析杜威对启蒙运动民主理想及其对超然凝视力量的信任的政治、认识论和美学基础的分析，概述了杜威对政治代表性的漠视。然后我表明，政治代表理论不仅与实用主义的杜威-实用主义的民主政治观点相容，而且杜威的“公众”概念如果应用于全球化政治的当代环境，也需要这样一种理论。我建议一种实用主义的政治代表理论，它结合了杜威美学的元素，尤其是他自己的视觉理论，