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OverviewThis 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Geneviève SouillacPublisher: Lexington Books Imprint: Lexington Books Dimensions: Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 24.10cm Weight: 0.513kg ISBN: 9780739126295ISBN 10: 0739126296 Pages: 238 Publication Date: 09 December 2011 Recommended Age: From 22 from 22 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction 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: Laicite 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 ConclusionReviewsThis is a very important book. It gives us a comprehensive conceptual framework for the creation of the inclusive spaces for public deliberation and mediation necessary in order for post-colonial, post-national and post-totalitarian democracies to function. Such spaces are ones in which we can all be ourselves together, not only as individual persons, but also as members of our various communities of belonging. It is only in such inclusive spaces that, together, we can create a common future we can all enter together as full human beings.--Wasilewski, Jacqueline This book is important because it weaves together both Anglophone and Continental thinking in political philosophy. Examining the role of historical memory in the debate on democratic ethics not only constitutes an original theoretical contribution--ultimately, it can further support the democratic pluralism the book defends. --Marcel Gauchet, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris -- Gauchet, Marcel This is a very important book. It gives us a comprehensive conceptual framework for the creation of the inclusive spaces for public deliberation and mediation necessary in order for post-colonial, post-national and post-totalitarian democracies to function. Such spaces are ones in which we can all be ourselves together, not only as individual persons, but also as members of our various communities of belonging. It is only in such inclusive spaces that, together, we can create a common future we can all enter together as full human beings. --Jacqueline Wasilewski, former professor at International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan -- Wasilewski , Jacqueline Text without context is pretext! In Burden of Democracy, Souillac powerfully reveals how the public sphere contextualizes and contains the politics of difference, pluralism and democratic justice as individuals and groups search for meaning and identity in a globalized world. --Kevin P. Clements, University of Otago, New Zealand -- Clements, Kevin P. The volume is wide-ranging, thorough, and penetrating in the author's elucidation of the burden of democracy today. This is a stimulating work of original and reliable scholarship that sheds light on the current democracy of France as well as on the current tasks of democratic theorizing. --Shin Chiba, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan -- Chiba, Shin Author InformationGeneviève Souillac is senior associate professor of philosophy and peace studies at the International Christian University of Japan. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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