Abstract
Can future generations be represented politically? In this paper I elaborate and discuss two relatively underexplored challenges. According to the first challenge, trying to represent future generations could have perverse consequences, as the rhetoric of representation might be used to resist demands for more ambitious forms of inclusion, or to legitimize decisions that have not in fact adequately represented all affected interests. According to the second challenge, attempting to represent posterity could also be futile, as it requires from citizens a disposition to think and deliberate impartially about the interests of future generations which they presently lack – if they had them, the argument goes, representation would be redundant. Although both challenges offer important insights, I argue that they can be resisted.
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