Is Democracy Possible Here? Principles for a New Political Debate

Name: Is Democracy Possible Here? Principles for a New Political Debate
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ISBN: 9780691138725

ISBN-10: 0691138729

ISBN-13: 9780691138725

Edition: 2006

Authors: Ronald Dworkin

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Politics in America are polarized and trivialized, perhaps as never before. In Congress, the media, and academic debate, opponents from right and left, the Red and the Blue, struggle against one another as if politics were contact sports played to the shouts of cheerleaders. The result, Ronald Dworkin writes, is a deeply depressing political culture, as ill equipped for the perennial challenge of achieving social justice as for the emerging threats of terrorism. Can the hope for change be realized? Dworkin, one the world's leading legal and political philosophers, identifies and defends core principles of personal and political morality that all citizens can share. He shows that recognizing…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 7/21/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 6.22" wide x 9.17" long x 0.48" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Ronald Dworkin was Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at New York University.



Acknowledgments


Preface



Common Ground



Terrorism and Human Rights



Religion and Dignity



Taxes and Legitimacy



Is Democracy Possible?


Epilogue


Notes


Index