Geneviève Souillac

The Burden of Democracy (eBook, PDF)

The Claims of Culture, Public Culture, and Democratic Memory

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers an original contribution to the debate on contemporary democratic ethics. It argues that public culture provides the mediating spaces required for processes of encounter, but should be supplemented with an open dialog on history, memory, and identity. Since democratic modernity is consolidating its new phase characterized by the multiplicity of perspectives, the mediation of conflict, identity, and memory are required to continue fostering mutual understanding and the identification of issues of common concern. The historical emergence of a public culture is a democratic gain. Recognizing this offers opportunities for ethical transformation that respects diversity but also addresses the realities of conflict under conditions of post modernity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216347934
• Artikelnr.: 75141832

Autorenporträt

Geneviève Souillac is senior associate professor of philosophy and peace studies at the International Christian University of Japan.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: Justice
Chapter 1: The Burden of Difference: Pluralist Justice and the Public
Sphere
Chapter 2: Moral Conversations and Democratic Hermeneutics
Chapter 3: Particularism versus Universalism: A False Debate?
Part II: Memory
Chapter 4: Secularism, Culture, and Critique
Chapter 5: Laicité and the Memory of Public Culture
Chapter 6: The Ties that Bind: Public Culture and the Debt to the Past
Part III: Encounter
Chapter 7: Normative Solidarity and Public Hermeneutics
Chapter 8: From Intersubjectivity to Encounter
Chapter 9: Exit of Religion, Debt of Meaning
Conclusion