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The democratic horizon : hyperpluralism and the renewal of political liberalism /
"Alessandro Ferrara explains what he terms "the democratic horizon"--The idea that democracy is no longer simply one form of government among others, but is instead almost universally regarded as the only legitimate form of government, the horizon to which most of us look. Professor F...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Reasons That Move the Imagination: Democratic Politics at Its Best; 1.1 Defining politics ; 1.2 The autonomy of politics in the global horizon ; 1.3 The building blocks of politics: discourse, judgment, recognition and the gift ; 1.4 Politics (normal and at its best), reasons and the imagination ; 2 Democracy and Openness ; 2.1 Democracy's ethos ; 2.2 The passion for openness ; 2.3 A genealogy of openness.
- 2.4 Openness, agape, hospitality and generosity: contemporary vistas on the ethos of democracy2.5 The philosophical import of the relation of democracy to openness ; 3 Reflexive Pluralism and the Conjectural Turn ; 3.1 Varieties of secularism ; 3.2 Varieties of pluralism ; 3.3 Christianity and pluralism: Robert Bellah on feeling (not entirely) at home in the church ; 3.4 Two prophetic traditions in ancient Judaism ; 3.5 Islam, liberalism and pluralism: a conjectural approach ; 3.6 Conclusion ; 4 Hyperpluralism and the Multivariate Democratic Polity ; 4.1 What is hyperpluralism?
- 4.2 Agonistic interpretations of hyperpluralism and their limits 4.3 "Passepartout-conjectural" and "original-position" strategies for addressing hyperpluralism ; 4.4 An unnecessary assumption, the teaching of the law of peoples and the multivariate democratic polity ; 5 Cuius Religio, Eius Res Publica: On Multiple Democracies; 5.1 From the "rise of modern rationalism" to "multiple modernities" through the rediscovery of the Axial Age ; 5.2 The axiality of the Axial Age and its difficulties: a reformulation; 5.3 A multiplicity of democratic cultures ; 5.4 Consonances across diversity.
- 5.5 Persisting dissonances: the "ethos of democracy" in the plural5.6 Conclusion ; 6 Multiculturalism: Negation or Completion of Liberalism?; 6.1 The problem of multiculturalism ; 6.2 Justificatory arguments for multiculturalism ; 6.3 The continuity of multiculturalism and political liberalism ; 7 Beyond the Nation: Governance and Deliberative Democracy; 7.1 The second transformation of democracy ; 7.2 What is deliberative democracy? ; 7.3 Government and governance ; 7.4 Democratic governance: interpretive advantages of the deliberative view ; 8 Truth, Justification, and Political Liberalism.
- 8.1 Rawls and Plato's myth of the cave: a restatement 8.2 Is a "political" conception of truth possible? ; 8.3 Truth and justification from the perspective of "comprehensive" conceptions of truth ; 8.4 An integrated, dual "political conception of truth" ; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.