Ideals of democratic participation and rational self-government have long informed modern political theory. As a recent elaboration of these ideals, the concept of deliberative democracy is based on the principle that legitimate democracy issues from the public deliberation of citizens. This remarkably fruitful concept has spawned investigations along a number of lines. Areas of inquiry include the nature and value of deliberation, the feasibility and desirability of consensus on contentious issues, the implications of institutional complexity and cultural diversity for democratic decision making, and the significance of voting and majority rule in deliberative arrangements.The anthology opens with four key essays--by Jon Elster, Jürgen Habermas, Joshua Cohen, and John Rawls--that helped establish the current inquiry into deliberative models of democracy. The nine essays that follow represent the latest efforts of leading democratic theorists to tackle various problems of deliberative democracy. All the contributions address tensions that arise between reason and politics in a democracy inspired by the ideal of achieving reasoned agreement among free and equal citizens. Although the authors approach the topic of deliberation from different perspectives, they all aim to provide a theoretical basis for a more robust democratic practice.Contributors : James Bohman, Thomas Christiano, Joshua Cohen, Jon Elster, David Estlund, Gerald F. Gaus, Jürgen Habermas, James Johnson, Jack Knight, Frank I. Michelman, John Rawls, Henry S. Richardson, Iris Marion Young.
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James Bohman is Danforth Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University. He is the author, editor, or translator of many books. William Rehg is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University. He is the translator of Jurgen Habermas's Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy (1996) and the coeditor of Deliberative Democracy: Essays on Reason and Politics and Pluralism (1997) and The Pragmatic Turn: The Transformation of Critical Theory (2001), all published by the MIT Press.
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New York, Joshua Cohen, Cambridge University Press, Epistemic Proceduralism, John Rawls, Harvard University Press, French Revolution, Oxford University Press, David Estlund, Regulative Ideal of Real Political Consensus, Thomas Christiano, Jon Elster, James Bohman, Democratic Intentions, Jürgen Habermas, Inequality Reexamined, Hannah Arendt, Ideal of Reason, Iris Marion Young, Jurgen Habermas, Princeton University Press, Columbia University Press, Fair Deliberative Proceduralism, Justificatory Liberalism, Ronald Dworkin New!
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- Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) by Jurgen Habermas on 14 pages
- The Social Contract (Penguin Classics) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau on 11 pages
- Deliberative Democracy: Essays on Reason and Politics by James Bohman on 9 pages
- Inequality Reexamined by Amartya Sen on 7 pages
- The Theory of Communicative Action: Lifeworld and Systems, a Critique of Functionalist Reason, Volume 2 by Jurgen Habermas (Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt); Translated by: Thomas McCarthy (Northwestern University) on 5 pages
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