Philosophy, Politics, Democracy
Format:
235x156x0 mm
Beschreibung:
Rejects the conventional idea that democratic politics is simply a contest for power, and that philosophical argument is disconnected from life. This book argues that political philosophy is part of politics, and its job is to contribute to the public reasoning about what we ought to do.
Over the past 20 years, Cohen has explored 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. Here, Cohen draws on his work to develop an argument about what he calls, following Rawls, “democracy’s public reason.”
* Acknowledgments * Introduction * Deliberation and Democratic Legitimacy * Moral Pluralism and Political Consensus * Associations and Democracy with Joel Rogers * Freedom of Expression * Procedure and Substance in Deliberative Democracy * Directly Deliberative Polyarchy with Charles Sabel * Democracy and Liberty * Money, Politics, Political Equality * Privacy, Pluralism, and Democracy * Reflections on Deliberative Democracy * Truth and Public Reason * Index