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Beyond Empathy: Strategies and Ideals of Democratic Deliberation
In: Polity: the journal of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Band 48, Heft 4, S. 524-550
ISSN: 0032-3497
American Dionysia: Violence, Tragedy, and Democratic Politics. By Steven Johnston. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 78, Heft 4, S. E19-E20
ISSN: 0022-3816
The two faces of democracy: decentering agonism and deliberation
"The democratic imagination is facing significant challenges. These challenges involve not only deep philosophical questions about the core values of democracy, but also pressing practical issues related to how we should understand and confront the rise of right-wing authoritarian populism. What should our stance be as defenders of democratic life? The two most prominent efforts to orient us here are the deliberative and agonistic models of democracy. The former emphasizes reasoned discussion, but some worry that this exclusive focus overlooks structures of injustice that distort civil deliberation. The latter prioritizes contestation and conflict, but its proponents struggle to explain why this prime orientation to defeating political opponents will not also corrode our commitment to normative democratic restraints, like fairness. This book develops an understanding of the moral core of democracy. In doing so, it illuminates how these two faces of democratic life, the deliberative and agonistic, each has a significant, but constrained, role to play in a more capacious comprehension of what our democratic commitments require of us. The "communicative model" of democracy we propose provides better grounds for facing the challenges of contemporary anti-democratic movements than either the deliberative or agonistic models alone"--
Teaching Wisdom to Interest: Book Five of Plato's Republic
In: PS: political science & politics, Band 42, Heft 1, S. 197-200
ISSN: 0030-8269, 1049-0965