Democracy and Difference

Name: Democracy and Difference
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ISBN: 9780271010977

ISBN-10: 0271010975

ISBN-13: 9780271010977

Edition: 1993

Authors: Anne Phillips

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A focus on the issues of class has provided much of the content of twentieth-century debates on democracy, with liberal democrats seeking to discount class differences and social democrats trying to find ways to eliminate them. Within this framework, attention has historically been given to such questions as the substantive conditions necessary to fulfill the promise of political equality, the appropriate scope of democratic decisionmaking, and the tension between an individualist politics of rights and a more collectivist notion of the common good. While these questions remain important, the context of the debate has shifted significantly during the past decade as perceptions of what…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Publication date: 8/25/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 184
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Anne Phillips is the Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her many books include The Politics of Presence and Multiculturalism without Culture (Princeton).



Acknowledgements


Introduction



Fraternity



So What's Wrong with the Individual?



Universal Pretensions in Political Thought



Citizenship and Feminist Theory



Democracy and Difference



Must Feminists Give up on Liberal Democracy?



The Promise of Democracy



Pluralism, Solidarity and Change


Index