Philosophy, Politics, Democracy : Selected Essays / Joshua Cohen.
2009
H61
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Title
Philosophy, Politics, Democracy : Selected Essays / Joshua Cohen.
Author
Cohen, Joshua, author.
ISBN
9780674271579
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]
Copyright
©2009
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource (408 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.4159/9780674271579 doi
Call Number
H61
Dewey Decimal Classification
321.8
Summary
Over the past twenty years, Joshua Cohen has explored the most controversial issues facing the American public: campaign finance and political equality, privacy rights and robust public debate, hate speech and pornography, and the capacity of democracies to address important practical problems. In this highly anticipated volume, Cohen draws on his work in these diverse topics to develop an argument about what he calls, following John Rawls, "democracy's public reason." He rejects the conventional idea that democratic politics is simply a contest for power, and that philosophical argument is disconnected from life. Political philosophy, he insists, is part of politics, and its job is to contribute to the public reasoning about what we ought to do. At the heart of Cohen's normative vision for our political life is an ideal of democracy in which citizens and their representatives deliberate about the requirements of justice and the common good. It is an idealistic picture, but also firmly grounded in the debates and struggles in which Cohen has been engaged over nearly three decades. Philosophy, Politics, Democracy explores these debates and considers their implications for the practice of democratic politics.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Deliberation and Democratic Legitimacy
2 Moral Pluralism and Political Consensus
3 Associations and Democracy
4 Freedom of Expression
5 Procedure and Substance in Deliberative Democracy
6 Directly Deliberative Polyarchy
7 Democracy and Liberty
8 Money, Politics, Political Equality
9 Privacy, Pluralism, and Democracy
10 Reflections on Deliberative Democracy
11 Truth and Public Reason
Index
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Deliberation and Democratic Legitimacy
2 Moral Pluralism and Political Consensus
3 Associations and Democracy
4 Freedom of Expression
5 Procedure and Substance in Deliberative Democracy
6 Directly Deliberative Polyarchy
7 Democracy and Liberty
8 Money, Politics, Political Equality
9 Privacy, Pluralism, and Democracy
10 Reflections on Deliberative Democracy
11 Truth and Public Reason
Index