Democracy and Difference (eBook, ePUB)

Contesting the Boundaries of the Political
Redaktion: Benhabib, Seyla

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Produktbeschreibung

The global trend toward democratization of the last two decades has been accompanied by the resurgence of various politics of "identity/difference." From nationalist and ethnic revivals in the countries of east and central Europe to the former Soviet Union, to the politics of cultural separatism in Canada, and to social movement politics in liberal western-democracies, the negotiation of identity/difference has become a challenge to democracies everywhere. This volume brings together a group of distinguished thinkers who rearticulate and reconsider the foundations of democratic theory and practice in the light of the politics of identity/difference.

In Part One Jürgen Habermas, Sheldon S. Wolin, Jane Mansbridge, Seyla Benhabib, Joshua Cohen, and Iris Marion Young write on democratic theory. Part Two--on equality, difference, and public representation--contains essays by Anne Phillips, Will Kymlicka, Carol C. Gould, Jean L. Cohen, and Nancy Fraser; and Part Three--on culture, identity, and democracy--by Chantal Mouffe, Bonnie Honig, Fred Dallmayr, Joan B. Landes, and Carlos A. Forment. In the last section Richard Rorty, Robert A. Dahl, Amy Gutmann, and Benjamin R. Barber write on whether democracy needs philosophical foundations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780691234168
• Artikelnr.: 62246267

Autorenporträt

Seyla Benhabib is Professor of Government at Harvard University. She is the author of Critique, Norm, and Utopia; Situating the Self: Gender, Community and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics; and The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Democratic Moment and the Problem of Difference
3
Pt. 1
Democratic Theory: Foundations and Perspectives
19
1
Three Normative Models of Democracy
21
2
Fugitive Democracy
31
3
Using Power/Fighting Power: The Polity
46
4
Toward a Deliberative Model of Democratic Legitimacy
67
5
Procedure and Substance in Deliberative Democracy
95
6
Communication and the Other: Beyond Deliberative Democracy
120
Pt. 2
Equality, Difference, and Public Representation
137
7
Dealing with Difference: A Politics of Ideas, or a Politics of Presence?
139
8
Three Forms of Group-Differentiated Citizenship in Canada
153
9
Diversity and Democracy: Representing Differences
171
10
Democracy, Difference, and the Right of Privacy
187
11
Gender Equity and the Welfare State: A Postindustrial Thought
Experiment
218
Pt. 3
Culture, Identity, and Democracy
243
12
Democracy, Power, and the "Political"
245
13
Difference, Dilemmas, and the Politics of Home
257
14
Democracy and Multiculturalism
278
15
The Performance of Citizenship: Democracy, Gender, and Difference in
the French Revolution
295
16
Peripheral Peoples and Narrative Identities: Arendtian Reflections on
Late Modernity
314
Pt. 4
Does Democracy Need Foundations?
331
17
Idealizations, Foundations, and Social Practices
333
18
Democratic Theory and Democratic Experience
336
19
Democracy, Philosophy, and Justification
340
20
Foundationalism and Democracy
348
List of Contributors
361
Index
365