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 Jurgen Habermas, Sheldon S. Wolin, Jane Mansbridge, Seyla Benhabib, Joshua Cohen, and Iris Marion Young write on democratic theory. Part Two--on equality, difference, and public representation--contains essays by Anne Phillips, Will Kymlicka, Carol C. Gould, Jean L. Cohen, and Nancy Fraser; and Part Three--on culture, identity, and democracy--by Chantal Mouffe, Bonnie Honig, Fred Dallmayr, Joan B. Landes, and Carlos A. Forment. In the last section Richard Rorty, Robert A. Dahl, Amy Gutmann, and Benjamin R.Barber write on whether democracy needs philosophical foundations.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-13
9780691044781
eBay Product ID (ePID)
89724411
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Political Science
Author
Seyla Benhabib
Publication Name
Democracy and Difference: Contesting the Boundaries of the Political
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
1996
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
235mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
539g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Editor
Seyla Benhabib
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