ABSTRACT

This book critically evaluates liberalism, the dominant attempt in the tradition of political philosophy to provide a philosophical foundation for democracy, and argues for a conception of deliberative democracy to meet this need.

chapter 1|14 pages

CHAPTER Introduction

chapter 2|6 pages

CHAPTER What Liberalism Is

chapter 3|10 pages

CHAPTER Tension in Liberal Theory

chapter |12 pages

Rawls’s Comprehensive Liberalism

chapter 4|13 pages

CHAPTER Three Liberal Responses

chapter |9 pages

Antifoundationalist Liberalism

chapter 7|5 pages

CHAPTER Toward a Deliberative Culture

chapter |2 pages

Conclusion

chapter |2 pages

Notes

chapter 3|6 pages

Chapter 3

chapter |8 pages

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