Reasonable Democracy : : Jürgen Habermas and the Politics of Discourse / / Simone Chambers.

In Reasonable Democracy, Simone Chambers describes, explains, and defends a discursive politics inspired by the work of Jürgen Habermas. In addition to comparing Habermas's ideas with other non-Kantian liberal theories in clear and accessible prose, Chambers develops her own views regarding the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©1996
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • 1. Justice, Rationality, and Democracy
  • I PROCEDURALISM WITHOUT METAPHYSICS
  • 2. What Is Proceduralism?
  • 3. Proceduralism and the Recovery of Moral Intuitions
  • 4. Interpretive Deontology
  • II CONTRACT OR CONVERSATION?
  • 5. John Rawls and the Freedom and Equality of Citizens
  • 6. Thomas Scanlon and the Desire for Reasonable Agreement
  • 7. Jurgen Habermas and Practical Discourse
  • III DISCOURSE AND MODERNITY
  • 8. Universalism in Reconstructive Science
  • 9. Defending Modernity
  • 10. Universalism in Morality
  • IV DISCOURSE AND POLITICS
  • 11. From the Ideal to the Real
  • 12. Justice and the Individual
  • 13. Approximating Discourse
  • 14. An Illustration
  • 15. Culture and Politics
  • INDEX