Democracy and Difference

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. 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.

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Introduction: The Democratic Moment and the Problem of Difference Pt. 1Democratic Theory: Foundations and Perspectives 1Three Normative Models of Democracy 2Fugitive Democracy 3Using Power/Fighting Power: The Polity 4Toward a Deliberative Model of Democratic Legitimacy 5Procedure and Substance in Deliberative Democracy 6Communication and the Other: Beyond Deliberative Democracy Pt. 2Equality, Difference, and Public Representation 7Dealing with Difference: A Politics of Ideas, or a Politics of Presence? 8Three Forms of Group-Differentiated Citizenship in Canada 9Diversity and Democracy: Representing Differences 10Democracy, Difference, and the Right of Privacy 11Gender Equity and the Welfare State: A Postindustrial Thought Experiment Pt. 3Culture, Identity, and Democracy 12Democracy, Power, and the "Political" 13Difference, Dilemmas, and the Politics of Home 14Democracy and Multiculturalism 15The Performance of Citizenship: Democracy, Gender, and Difference in the French Revolution 16Peripheral Peoples and Narrative Identities: Arendtian Reflections on Late Modernity Pt. 4Does Democracy Need Foundations? 17Idealizations, Foundations, and Social Practices 18Democratic Theory and Democratic Experience 19Democracy, Philosophy, and Justification 20Foundationalism and Democracy List of Contributors Index

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