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1 online resource (317 pages)
ISBN:
9789401203302
Serie:
Value Inquiry Book Series, 181 v.v. 181
Inhalt:
This book, based on the premise that democracy promotes peace and justice, explores theoretical and practical problems that can arise or that have arisen in democratic polities. Contributors address, with clarifying analyses, such theoretical issues as the relationship between recursivist metaphysics and democracy, the relationship between the economic and political orders, and the nature of justice. Contributors offer, as well, enlightening resolutions of practical problems resulting from a history of social, political or economic injustice.
Inhalt:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- Editorial Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Is There a Connection between Democracy and Peace? -- 1. Donald A. Wells -- 2. Ronald J. Glossop -- 3. Beth J. Singer -- 4. Mary Lenzi -- PART ONE: Divisions in Society and Obstacles to Democratic Discourse -- Introduction -- One: Semiotics of Meaninglessness: Cornel West's Explication of Inner-City Nihilism -- 1. Struggle to Understand Inner-City Gangs -- 2. Varieties of Nihilistic Experience -- Two: Moral Pessimism and the Ideals of Democracy -- 1. Moral Pessimists' Viewpoint -- 2. Moral Pessimism and the Legacy of Slavery -- 3. Governmental Action and Moral Pessimism -- 4. Hope Amidst Moral Pessimism -- 5. Overcoming the Societal Problem -- 6. Overcoming the Legacy of Slavery -- Three: South African Democracy, Multi-Culturalism, Rights, and Community -- 1. Liberalism and Communitarianism -- 2. South African Politics -- 3. Multi-Culturalism in South Africa -- 4. Liberalism, Communitarianism, and Multi-Culturalism -- Four: Exploring Problems of Democracy with Perspectives of Jürgen Habermas and Zen Buddhism -- 1. Habermas's Theory of Communicative Action -- 2. Psychoanalytic, Feminist, and Post-Modern Concerns -- 3. Exploring the Zen-Habermas Interplay -- Five: Hiroshima, Morality, and Democracy -- 1. Two Narratives -- 2. The Bombing and Its Consequences -- 3. Early Criticism-Moral Issues -- 4. Official Hiroshima Narrative -- 5. Challenging the Official Hiroshima Narrative: Enola Gay Script and Its Fate -- 6. Moral Issues Revisited -- 7. Hiroshima, Democratic Processes, and Democratic Values -- 8. Grounds for Hope -- PART TWO: Public Participation in Political and Economic Processes -- Introduction -- Six: Democracy in Market Economies -- 1. Separation of Democratic Principles from the Economic Sphere -- 2. Extending Democracy to the Economic Sphere.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9789042020603
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789042020603
Sprache:
Englisch
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