Justice and Democracy : Cross-Cultural Perspectives /

Today democracy is increasingly recognized around the world as the only form of government with moral legitimacy. The problems of establishing and preserving truly democratic institutions, however, vary dramatically from culture to culture. Justice and Democracy explores these problems from a wide r...

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Otros Autores: Ames, Roger T. (Contribuidor), Barnhart, Michael (Contribuidor), Baynes, Kenneth (Contribuidor), Bontekoe, Ron (Contribuidor, Editor ), Braidotti, Rosi (Contribuidor), Buchanan, James (Contribuidor), Cheng, Chung-Ying (Contribuidor), Cunningham, Frank (Contribuidor), Dallmayr, Fred (Contribuidor), Fakhry, Majid (Contribuidor), Grange, Joseph (Contribuidor), Hall, David L. (Contribuidor), Honderich, Ted (Contribuidor), Iqbal, Javid (Contribuidor), Kim, Yersu (Contribuidor), King, Ambrose Y. C. (Contribuidor), Krishna, Daya (Contribuidor), Laclau, Ernesto (Contribuidor), Lara, María Pía (Contribuidor), Loy, David (Contribuidor), Mouffe, Chantal (Contribuidor), Möller, Hans-Georg (Contribuidor), Rorty, Richard (Contribuidor), Singh, Ramjee (Contribuidor), Solovyov, Erikh (Contribuidor), Stepaniants, Marietta (Contribuidor, Editor ), Stojanović, Svetozar (Contribuidor), Sunstein, Cass R. (Contribuidor), Tiles, J. E. (Contribuidor), Ying-shih, Yü (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [1997]
Temas:
Democracy > Congresses.
Liberty > Congresses.
Social justice > Congresses.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political ideologies / Democracy.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Theoretical Approaches
  • Justice as a Larger Loyalty
  • Law as Politicians' Morality
  • Justice and Solidarity: The Case of Recognition
  • Equality and Difference in Democratic Theory
  • Grounding a Theory of Rights in Fallibilist Epistemology
  • 2. Contemporary Problems of Application
  • On Relating Justice and Democracy: A Strategy and a Hypothesis
  • Deliberation, Democracy, Disagreement
  • Democracy as Culture
  • Hierarchic Democracy and the Necessity of Mass Civil Disobedience
  • Post-Communism, Democracy, Nationality, and Capitalist Economy
  • 3. Asian Perspectives
  • Confucianism, Modernity, and Asian Democracy
  • Can We Do Justice to All Theories of Justice? Toward Integrating Classical and Modern Paradigms of Justice
  • The Idea of Democracy and the Twilight of the Elite Culture in Modern China
  • Democracy and Justice: Presuppositions and Implications
  • Gandhi's Conception of Democracy
  • Democracy and Justice: Islam's Political Message Restated
  • Western and Islamic Views of Democracy and Justice: A Comparative and Interpretative Study
  • 4. Comparative Perspectives
  • Dewey, China, and the Democracy of the Dead
  • The Disappearance of the Public Good: Confucius/Dewey/ Rorty
  • Freedom: A Buddhist Critique
  • Buddhist Ethics and Social Justice
  • 5. Postmodern Perspectives
  • Nomadic Subjects: Feminist Postmodernism as Antirelativism
  • Subject of Politics, Politics of the Subject
  • Democratic Identity and Pluralist Politics
  • The Philosophy of Signs and Democratic Discourse: Coincidences between Chinese Pre- and Western Post-Modernity
  • Beyond East and West: Postmodern Democracy in a Mode of Information
  • 6. Principles of Cultural Dialogue
  • The Ideal of Justice in the Context of Cultural Dialogue
  • World Change and the Cultural Synthesis of the West
  • Justice and Global Democracy
  • Contributors
  • Index

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