Democracy and Difference : : Contesting the Boundaries of the Political / / ed. by Seyla Benhabib.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Barber, Benjamin R.,; Benhabib, Seyla,; Cohen, Jean L.,; Cohen, Joshua,; Dahl, Robert A.,; Dallmayr, Fred,; Forment, Carlos A.,; Fraser, Nancy,; Gould, Carol C.,; Gutmann, Amy,; Habermas, Jürgen,; Honig, Bonnie,; Kymlicka, Will,; Landes, Joan B.,; Mansbridge, Jane,; Mouffe, Chantal,; Phillips, Anne,; Rorty, Richard,; Wolin, Sheldon S.,; Young, Iris Marion,
• HerausgeberIn: Benhabib, Seyla,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction The Democratic Moment and the Problem of Difference -- PART ONE. DEMOCRATIC THEORY: FOUNDATIONS AND PERSPECTIVES -- One Three Normative Models of Democracy -- Two Fugitive Democracy -- Three Using Power/Fighting Power: The Polity -- Four Toward a Deliberative Model of Democratic Legitimacy -- Five Procedure and Substance in Deliberative Democracy -- Six Communication and the Other: Beyond Deliberative Democracy -- PART TWO. EQUALITY, DIFFERENCE, AND PUBLIC REPRESENTATION -- Seven Dealing with Difference: A Politics of Ideas, or a Politics of Presence? -- Eight Three Forms of Group-Differentiated Citizenship in Canada -- Nine Diversity and Democracy: Representing Differences -- Ten Democracy, Difference, and the Right of Privacy -- Eleven Gender Equity and the Welfare State: A Postindustrial Thought Experiment -- PART THREE. CULTURE, IDENTITY, AND DEMOCRACY -- Twelve Democracy, Power, and the “Political” -- Thirteen Difference, Dilemmas, and the Politics of Home -- Fourteen Democracy and Multiculturalism -- Fifteen The Performance of Citizenship: Democracy, Gender, and Difference in the French Revolution -- Sixteen Peripheral Peoples and Narrative Identities: Arendtian Reflections on Late Modernity -- PART FOUR. DOES DEMOCRACY NEED FOUNDATIONS? -- Seventeen Idealizations, Foundations, and Social Practices -- Eighteen Democratic Theory and Democratic Experience -- Nineteen Democracy, Philosophy, and Justification -- Twenty Foundationalism and Democracy -- List of Contributors -- Index