Receptivity

{{Short description|Practical capacity and source of normativity}} {{see also|Reflective disclosure|World disclosure}} {{Multiple issues|{{refimprove|date=December 2014}}{{one source|date=December 2014}}}}

'''Receptivity''', or '''receptive agency''', is a practical capacity and source of normativity, which, according to the philosopher Nikolas Kompridis, has both ontological and ethical dimensions, and refers to a mode of listening and "normative response" to demands arising outside the self, as well as "a way by which we might become more attuned to our pre-reflective understanding of the world, to our inherited ontologies," thereby generating non-instrumental possibilities for social change and self-transformation. Kompridis has argued for the importance of receptivity to democratic politics, romanticism and critical theory.<ref>Nikolas Kompridis, ''Critique and Disclosure: Critical Theory between Past and Future'' (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006), pp. 199-210.</ref>

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==External links== * [http://www.ethicsandglobalpolitics.net/index.php/egp/issue/view/536 "A Politics of Receptivity".] Special issue of ''Ethics and Global Politics'', Vol 4, No 4 (2011), guest editor Nikolas Kompridis.

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