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Tradition and the deliberative turn : a critique of contemporary democratic theory / Ryan R. Holston.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Holston, Ryan R., 1973- author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Deliberative democracy--Philosophy.
Deliberative democracy.
Genre:
Electronic books.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (220 pages)
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2023]
Summary:
Reframes the discussion of deliberative democracy in a unique fashion, approaching the debate as a historical conversation.
Contents:
Intro
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Deliberation's Wake
Deliberation without Limits
Gadamer and the Enlightenment
Continuing the Dialogue
Notes
Chapter 1 Rousseau's Divorce of the Good from History
Metaphysical Dualism
Historical Experience and the State of Nature
The General Will and the Problem of Abstraction
Historical Particularity and the Autonomy Tradition
Chapter 2 Kant Formalizes the Divorce
The Newton of the Moral World
Freedom and Universalization
Kant's Dualism and the Problem of Historical Experience
Scientific Morality
Chapter 3 Democracy's Deliberation
The Uses of Public Reason
Deliberation and the Autonomy Tradition
The Community without Limits
Chapter 4 The Rehabilitation of Prejudice
The Historicity of Truth
The Historicity of the Good
Tradition's Authority
Prejudice Rehabilitated
Chapter 5 Tradition's Deliberation
Kantianism and Imperative Ethics
The Localization of Truth
Philia and Forbearance
The Self and the Sensus Communis
Bouleuesthai (Deliberation)
Chapter 6 Deliberation and Modernity
Abstract Individualism
Abstract Community
Modernity as Historical Narrative
Conclusion
Beyond Autonomy
Our Present Historical Moment
Bibliography
Index
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Other Format:
Print version: Holston, Ryan R. Tradition and the Deliberative Turn
ISBN:
9781438492100
1438492103
OCLC:
1370495010

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