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Democracy and Difference Contesting the Boundaries of the Political

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ISBN-10: 0691044783

ISBN-13: 9780691044781

Edition: 1996

Authors: Seyla Benhabib

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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.In Part One Jrgen Habermas, Sheldon S.…    
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Book details

List price: $48.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 7/28/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.17" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Seyla Benhabib is the author of, most recently, The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt.

Introduction: The Democratic Moment and the Problem of Difference
Democratic Theory: Foundations and Perspectives
Three Normative Models of Democracy
Fugitive Democracy
Using Power/Fighting Power: The Polity
Toward a Deliberative Model of Democratic Legitimacy
Procedure and Substance in Deliberative Democracy
Communication and the Other: Beyond Deliberative Democracy
Equality, Difference, and Public Representation
Dealing with Difference: A Politics of Ideas, or a Politics of Presence?
Three Forms of Group-Differentiated Citizenship in Canada
Diversity and Democracy: Representing Differences
Democracy, Difference, and the Right of Privacy
Gender Equity and the Welfare State: A Postindustrial Thought Experiment
Culture, Identity, and Democracy
Democracy, Power, and the "Political"
Difference, Dilemmas, and the Politics of Home
Democracy and Multiculturalism
The Performance of Citizenship: Democracy, Gender, and Difference in the French Revolution
Peripheral Peoples and Narrative Identities: Arendtian Reflections on Late Modernity
Does Democracy Need Foundations?
Idealizations, Foundations, and Social Practices
Democratic Theory and Democratic Experience
Democracy, Philosophy, and Justification
Foundationalism and Democracy
List of Contributors
Index