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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©1996Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501722547
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320/.01 20
LOC classification:
  • JA76 .C479 1996
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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 role of discourse and its importance within liberal democracies.Beginning with a deceptively simple question—"Why is talking better than fighting?"—Chambers explains how the idea of talking provides a rich and compelling view of morality, rationality, and political stability. She considers talking as a way for people to respect each other as moral agents, as a way to reach reasonable and legitimate solutions to disputes, and as a way to reproduce and strengthen shared understandings. In the course of this argument, she defends modern universalist ethics, communicative rationality, and what she calls a "discursive political culture," a concept that locates the political power of discourse and deliberation not so much in institutions of democratic decision-making as in the type of conversations that go on around these institutions. While discourse and deliberation cannot replace voting, bargaining, or compromise, Chambers argues, it is important to maintain a background moral conversation in which to anchor other activities.As an extended case study, Chambers examines the conversation about language rights that has been taking place for more than twenty years in Quebec. A culture of dialogue, she shows, has proved a positive and powerful force in resolving some of the disagreements between the two linguistic communities there.
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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

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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 role of discourse and its importance within liberal democracies.Beginning with a deceptively simple question—"Why is talking better than fighting?"—Chambers explains how the idea of talking provides a rich and compelling view of morality, rationality, and political stability. She considers talking as a way for people to respect each other as moral agents, as a way to reach reasonable and legitimate solutions to disputes, and as a way to reproduce and strengthen shared understandings. In the course of this argument, she defends modern universalist ethics, communicative rationality, and what she calls a "discursive political culture," a concept that locates the political power of discourse and deliberation not so much in institutions of democratic decision-making as in the type of conversations that go on around these institutions. While discourse and deliberation cannot replace voting, bargaining, or compromise, Chambers argues, it is important to maintain a background moral conversation in which to anchor other activities.As an extended case study, Chambers examines the conversation about language rights that has been taking place for more than twenty years in Quebec. A culture of dialogue, she shows, has proved a positive and powerful force in resolving some of the disagreements between the two linguistic communities there.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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