Persuasion and Compulsion in Democracy (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Kegley, Jacquelyn; Skowronski, Krzysztof Piotr

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays focuses on the roles that coercion and persuasion should play in contemporary democratic political systems or societies. A number of the authors advocate new approaches to this question, offering various critiques of the dominant classical liberalism views of political justification, freedom, tolerance and the political subject. A major concern is with the conversational character of democracy. Given the problematic and ambiguous status of the many differences present in contemporary society, the authors seek to alert us to the danger, that an emphasis on reasonable consensus will conceal exclusion in practice of some contending positions. The voices of vulnerable peoples can be unconsciously or even deliberately silenced by various institutional processes and operating procedures and a strong media influence can change the tenor of conversations and even lead to deception. To counter these factors, a number of the essays, in differing ways, urge the fostering of local community conversations or democratic agoras so that democratic debate and conversation might maintain the vitality necessary to a strong democratic system.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739178799
• Artikelnr.: 37836779

Autorenporträt

Jacquelyn Kegley is CSU outstanding professor of philosophy and Wang Family awardee for outstanding teaching, research, and service. She is professor of philosophy and chair of the department of philosophy and religious studies at California State University, Bakersfield. She is author of Josiah Roxce in Focus and Genuine Individuals and Genuine Communities: A Roycean Public Philosophy. She is an author and editor of Genetic Knowledge as well of numerous articles on American Philosophy, Genetic technology, and contributed to the volume, Pragmatic Bioetchics. She also contributed to Library of Living Philosophers volumes on Marjorie Grene, Paul Weiss, and Richard Rorty. She is immediate past president of the society for the advancement of American Philosophy and a recipient of the Herbert Schnieder Award for outstanding contributions of American Philosophy. Krzysztof (Chris) Piotr Skowronski, PhD, teaches contemporary philosophy, aesthetics, cultural anthropology, Polish Philosophy, and American Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy, Opole University, Poland. He co-organizes annual conferences on American and European Values. He authored books: Values and Powers. Re-reading the Philosophical Tradition of American Pragmatism (Rodopi in 2009) and Santayana and America. Values, Liberties, Responsibility (Cambridge Scholars 2007). He co-edited books: (with Matthew Flamm) Under Any Sky. Contemporary Readings of George Santayana (Cambridge Scholars 2007); (with Matthew Flamm and John Lachs) American and European Values: Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives (Cambridge Scholars 2008); (with Larry Hickman, Matthew Flamm and Jennifer Rea) The Continuing Relevance of John Dewey: Reflections of Aesthetics, Morality, Science, and Society (Rodopi 2011); (with Kelly Parker) Josiah Royce for the Twenty First Century (Lexington 2012); and (with Cornelis de Waal) The Normative Thought of Charles S. Peirce (Fordham, 2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: New Visions and Public Actions Introduction: Re-assessing
Compulsion and Persuasion in Democracy via a New Framework Part I: Public
Issues Chapter 1: Between Rhetoric and Dialectic: On Persuasion and Other
Compulsive Habits in Democracy Chapter 2: Democracy, Persuasion, or
Inclusion?: The Sense of a Crisis Chapter 3: Compulsion and Persuasion in a
Democracy of Split Levels Chapter 4: Hegemony, Social Inquiry, and the
Primacy of Practical Reason Part II: Theoretical Matters Chapter 5: Keeping
Radical Democracy Pragmatic: The Vanishing Subject in Laclau and Mouffe's
Politics of the Real Chapter 6: A Good Citizen: The Forlorn Hope of Freedom
and Rational persuasion Beyond Compulsion - A Pragmatist View Chapter 7:
Pragmatist Philosophy and Persuasive Discourse: Dewey and Rorty on the Role
of Non-Logical Changes in Belief Chapter 8: Constructivist Problems,
Realist Solutions Part III: Actions Chapter 9: A Pragmatist Communicative
Ethics for Politics and Everyday Life: Persuasion and Compulsion in
Democracy Chapter 10: Persuasion and Compulsion in Radical Democracy: Some
Insights from John Dewey Chapter 11: Aesthetic Persuasion and Political
Compulsion: Literary Philosophy in Light of Richard Rorty's Ideas of
Democratic Liberalism and Cultural Politics Chapter 12: The Global Learning
Chain and Baltimore City's Filipino Teachers: Persuasion and Compulsion in
the Classroom Chapter 13: Persuasion and Compulsion in Democratic Urban
Planning Index About the Contributors