Public Deliberation: Pluralism, Complexity, and Democracy (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)

Bohman, James

ISBN 10: 0262024101 / ISBN 13: 9780262024105

Editore: Mit Pr, 1996

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• Titolo: Public Deliberation: Pluralism, Complexity, and Democracy (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)
• Editore: Mit Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0262024101
• ISBN 13: 9780262024105
• Rilegatura: hardcover
• Condizione: Very Good

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Riassunto

How can we create a vital and inclusive pluralistic democracy? Public Deliberation offers answers to this question by showing how democratic theory and democratic practice can be remade to face new challenges. Arguing against the skepticism about democracy that flourishes today on both ends of the political spectrum, James Bohman proposes a new model of public deliberation that will allow a renewed expansion of democratic practice, even in the face of increasing pluralism, inequality, and social complexity.

Bohman builds on early Critical Theory and on the recent work of Jurgen Habermas and John Rawls (while taking into consideration criticisms of their work) to create a picture of a richer democratic practice based on the public reasoning of citizens. Starting with a pragmatic account of how deliberation actually works to promote agreements and cooperation, he develops a realistic model of deliberation by gradually introducing and analyzing the major tests facing deliberative democracy: cultural pluralism, social inequalities, social complexity, and community-wide biases and ideologies. The result is a new understanding of the ways in which public deliberation can be extended to meet the needs of modern societies.

Informazioni sull?autore

James Bohman is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University.