Democracy and difference : contesting the boundaries of the political / edited by Seyla Benhabib.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Benhabib, Seyla, editor.

Series:

Princeton paperbacks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social movements.

Democracy.

Nationalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (442 pages)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1996]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

The global trend toward democratization of the last two decades has been accompanied by the resurgence of various politics of "identity/difference." From nationalist and ethnic revivals in the countries of east and central Europe to the former Soviet Union, to the politics of cultural separatism in Canada, and to social movement politics in liberal western-democracies, the negotiation of identity/difference has become a challenge to democracies everywhere. This volume brings together a group of distinguished thinkers who rearticulate and reconsider the foundations of democratic theory and practice in the light of the politics of identity/difference.

Contents:

Peripheral peoples and narrative idenities: Arendtian reflections on late modernity / Carlos A. Forment

Idealizations, foundations, and social practices / Richard Rorty

Democratic theory and democratic experience / Robert A. Dahl

Democracy, philosophy, and justification / Amy Gutmann

Foundationalism and democracy / Benjamin R. Barber.

Diversity and democracy: representing differences / Carol C. Gould

Democracy, difference, and the right of privacy / Jean L. Cohen

Gender equity and the welfare state: a postindustrial thought experiment / Nancy Fraser

Democracy, power, and the "political" / Chantal Mouffe

Difference, dilemmas, and the politics of home / Bonnie Honig

Democracy and multiculturalism / Fred Dallmayr

Performance of citizenship: democracy, gender, and difference in the French Revolution / Joan B. Landes.

Three normative models of democracy / Jurgen Habermas

Fugitive democracy / Sheldon S. Wolin

Using power/fighting power: the polity / Jane Mansbridge

Toward a deliberative model of democratic legitimacy / Seyla Benhabib

Procedure and substance in deliberative democracy / Joshua Cohen

Communication and the other: beyond deliberative democracy / Iris Marion Young

Dealing with difference: a politics of ideas, or a politics of presence? / Anne Phillips

Three forms of group-differentiated citizenship in Canada / Will Kymlicka.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691234168

0691234167

OCLC:

1259592757