A civil tongue : justice, dialogue, and the politics of pluralism / Mark Kingwell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kingwell, Mark, 1963- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural pluralism.

Etiquette.

Justice.

Courtesy.

Dialogue.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 270 pages)

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : Pennsylvania State University Press, [1995]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is about a widely shared desire: the desire among citizens for a vibrant and effective social discourse of legitimation. It therefore begins with the conviction that what political philosophy can provide citizens is not further theories of the good life but instead directions for talking about how to justify the choices they make—or, in brief, ";just talking.";As part of the general trend away from the aridity of Kantian universalism in political philosophy, thinkers as diverse as Bruce Ackerman, Jürgen Habermas, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Richard Rorty have taken a ";dialogic turn"; that seeks to understand the determination of principles of justice as a cooperative task, achieved in some kind of social dialogue among real citizens. In one way or another, however, each of these different variations on the dialogic model fail to provide fully satisfactory answers, Mark Kingwell shows. Drawing on their strengths, he presents another model he calls ";justice as civility,"; which makes original use of the popular literature on etiquette and work in sociolinguistics to develop a more adequate theory of dialogic justice.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

Part One

1. Interpretation, Dialogue, and the Just Citizen

2. A First Look at Civility

Part Two

3. Constrained Liberal Dialogue

4. Tradition and Translation

5. Justice and Communicative Action

Part Three

6. Justice as Civility

7. The Limits of Civility

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-260) and index.

ISBN:

9780271071633

027107163X

OCLC:

1347259301