Justice and Democracy : : Cross-Cultural Perspectives / / ed. by Ron Bontekoe, Marietta Stepaniants.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Ames, Roger T.,; Barnhart, Michael,; Baynes, Kenneth,; Bontekoe, Ron,; Braidotti, Rosi,; Buchanan, James,; Cheng, Chung-Ying,; Cunningham, Frank,; Dallmayr, Fred,; Fakhry, Majid,; Grange, Joseph,; Hall, David L.,; Honderich, Ted,; Iqbal, Javid,; Kim, Yersu,; King, Ambrose Y. C.,; Krishna, Daya,; Laclau, Ernesto,; Lara, María Pía,; Loy, David,; Mouffe, Chantal,; Möller, Hans-Georg,; Rorty, Richard,; Singh, Ramjee,; Solovyov, Erikh,; Stepaniants, Marietta,; Stojanović, Svetozar,; Sunstein, Cass R.,; Tiles, J. E.,; Ying-shih, Yü,
• HerausgeberIn: Bontekoe, Ron,; Stepaniants, Marietta,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [1997]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 1997
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (424 p.)

Today democracy is increasingly recognized around the world as the only form of government with moral legitimacy. The problems of establishing and preserving truly democratic institutions, however, vary dramatically from culture to culture. Justice and Democracy explores these problems from a wide range of perspectives, theoretical and practical. It addresses problems related to the distortion of democratic decision-making by the gross disparities in wealth that arise in capitalist economies, and, in particular, focuses on the problems relating to the reconciliation of democratic values with the indigenous religious and social values of a culture.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Theoretical Approaches -- Justice as a Larger Loyalty -- Law as Politicians’ Morality -- Justice and Solidarity: The Case of Recognition -- Equality and Difference in Democratic Theory -- Grounding a Theory of Rights in Fallibilist Epistemology -- 2. Contemporary Problems of Application -- On Relating Justice and Democracy: A Strategy and a Hypothesis -- Deliberation, Democracy, Disagreement -- Democracy as Culture -- Hierarchic Democracy and the Necessity of Mass Civil Disobedience -- Post-Communism, Democracy, Nationality, and Capitalist Economy -- 3. Asian Perspectives -- Confucianism, Modernity, and Asian Democracy -- Can We Do Justice to All Theories of Justice? Toward Integrating Classical and Modern Paradigms of Justice -- The Idea of Democracy and the Twilight of the Elite Culture in Modern China -- Democracy and Justice: Presuppositions and Implications -- Gandhi’s Conception of Democracy -- Democracy and Justice: Islam’s Political Message Restated -- Western and Islamic Views of Democracy and Justice: A Comparative and Interpretative Study -- 4. Comparative Perspectives -- Dewey, China, and the Democracy of the Dead -- The Disappearance of the Public Good: Confucius/Dewey/ Rorty -- Freedom: A Buddhist Critique -- Buddhist Ethics and Social Justice -- 5. Postmodern Perspectives -- Nomadic Subjects: Feminist Postmodernism as Antirelativism -- Subject of Politics, Politics of the Subject -- Democratic Identity and Pluralist Politics -- The Philosophy of Signs and Democratic Discourse: Coincidences between Chinese Pre- and Western Post-Modernity -- Beyond East and West: Postmodern Democracy in a Mode of Information -- 6. Principles of Cultural Dialogue -- The Ideal of Justice in the Context of Cultural Dialogue -- World Change and the Cultural Synthesis of the West -- Justice and Global Democracy -- Contributors -- Index