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In Reasonable Democracy, Simone Chambers Describes, Explains, And Defends A Discursive Politics Inspired By The Recent Work Of Jurgen Habermas. In Addition To Comparing Habermas's Ideas With Other Non-kantian Liberal Theories In Clear And Accessible Prose, Chambers Develops Her Own Views Regarding The Role Of Discourse And Its Importance Within Liberal Democracies. Beginning With A Deceptively Simple Question, Why Is Talking Better Than Fighting? Chambers Explains How The Idea Of Talking Provides A Rich And Compelling View Of Morality, Rationality, And Political Stability. She Considers Talking As A Way For People To Respect Each Other As Moral Agents, As A Way To Reach Reasonable And Legitimate Solutions To Disputes, And As A Way To Reproduce And Strengthen Shared Understandings. In The Course Of This Argument, She Defends Modern Universalist Ethics, Communicative Rationality, And What She Calls A Discursive Political Culture, A Concept That Locates The Political Power Of Discourse And Deliberation Not So Much In Institutions Of Democratic Decision-making As In The Type Of Conversations That Go On Around These Institutions. While Discourse And Deliberation Cannot Replace Voting, B

Author

Chambers, Simone

Publisher

Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801426681

Subjects

Political Science, Social_sciences