Truth and Democracy /

Truth and Democracy / / ed. by Andrew Norris, Jeremy Elkins.

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Political theorists Jeremy Elkins and Andrew Norris observe that American political culture is deeply ambivalent about truth. On the one hand, voices on both the left and right make confident appeals to the truth of claims about the status of the market in public life and the role of scientific evid...

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MitwirkendeR:
Bennett, Jane,
Brown, Wendy,
Cohen, Joshua,
Elkins, Jeremy,
Estlund, David,
Galston, William A.,
Hoy, David Couzens,
Lynch, Michael P.,
Norris, Andrew,
Ober, Josiah,
Pinter, Harold,
Post, Robert,
Rosen, Frederick,
Smith, Rogers M.,
Urbinati, Nadia,
Westbrook, Robert,
Yack, Bernard,
Zerilli, Linda M. G.,
HerausgeberIn:
Elkins, Jeremy,
Norris, Andrew,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Politics, Political Theory, and the Question of Truth
  • From Nobel Lecture: Art, Truth, and Politics
  • PART I. Opinion and Agreement
  • Chapter 1. Concerning Practices of Truth
  • Chapter 2. Truth and Politics
  • Chapter 3. Truth and Disagreement
  • Chapter 4. "Speaking Power to Truth"
  • PART II. Authority and Justification
  • Chapter 5. Cynicism, Skepticism, and the Politics of Truth
  • Chapter 6. Democracy as a Space of Reasons
  • Chapter 7. Truth and Democracy: Theme and Variations
  • Chapter 8. On Truth and Democracy: Hermeneutic Responses
  • Chapter 9. Too Soon for the Counterreformation
  • PART III. Decision and Deliberation
  • Chapter 11. Democracy and the Love of Truth
  • Chapter 12. J. S. Mill on Truth, Liberty, and Democracy
  • Chapter 13. Can This Marriage Be Saved? The Relationship of Democracy and Truth
  • Chapter 14. Democratic Politics and the Lovers of Truth
  • PART IV. Truth and Public Reasons
  • Chapter 15. Truth and Public Reason
  • Chapter 16. The Truth in Political Liberalism
  • Chapter 17. Truth at the Door of Public Reason: Response to Cohen and Estlund
  • Chapter 18. Just Gimme Some Truth: A Pragmatist Proposal
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Contributors

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