The burden of democracy : the claims of cultures, public culture, and democratic memory / Genevieve Souillac.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Souillac, Geneviève, 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy--Philosophy.

Democracy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book offers an original contribution to the debate on contemporary democratic ethics. It argues that public culture provides the mediating spaces required for processes of encounter, but should be supplemented with an open dialogue on history, memory, and identity. Since democratic modernity is consolidating its new phase characterized by the multiplicity of perspectives, the mediation of conflict, identity, and memory are required to continue fostering mutual understanding and the identification of issues of common concern. The historical emergence of a public culture i

Contents:

The burden of difference: pluralist justice and the public sphere

Moral conversations and democratic hermeneutics

Particularism versus universalism: a false debate?

Secularism, culture, and critique

Laïcité and the memory of public culture

The ties that bind: public culture and the debt to the past

Normative solidarity and public hermeneutics

From intersubjectivity to encounter

Exit of religion, debt of meaning.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-82-16-34793-4

1-283-44699-5

9786613446992

0-7391-7189-5

OCLC:

775302626