{"product_id":"democracy-and-difference-contesting-the-boundaries-of-the-political-paperback-1","title":"Democracy and Difference: Contesting the Boundaries of the Political - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSeyla Benhabib\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe global trend toward democratization of the last two decades has been accompanied by the resurgence of various politics of \"identity\/difference.\" From nationalist and ethnic revivals in the countries of east and central Europe to the former Soviet Union, to the politics of cultural separatism in Canada, and to social movement politics in liberal western-democracies, the negotiation of identity\/difference has become a challenge to democracies everywhere. This volume brings together a group of distinguished thinkers who rearticulate and reconsider the foundations of democratic theory and practice in the light of the politics of identity\/difference. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In Part One Jürgen Habermas, Sheldon S. Wolin, Jane Mansbridge, Seyla Benhabib, Joshua Cohen, and Iris Marion Young write on democratic theory. Part Two--on equality, difference, and public representation--contains essays by Anne Phillips, Will Kymlicka, Carol C. Gould, Jean L. Cohen, and Nancy Fraser; and Part Three--on culture, identity, and democracy--by Chantal Mouffe, Bonnie Honig, Fred Dallmayr, Joan B. Landes, and Carlos A. Forment. In the last section Richard Rorty, Robert A. Dahl, Amy Gutmann, and Benjamin R. Barber write on whether democracy needs philosophical foundations.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeyla Benhabib\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Government at Harvard University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eCritique, Norm, and Utopia; Situating the Self: Gender, Community and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.95 x 9.19 x 6.08 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 28, 1996\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52731641659699,"sku":"9780691044781","price":97.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/RUJmdXRldC9xbC9CQmhVR1k1L1ZrUT09_b4d47249-d259-4f9b-afc0-10e9fa71ff5b.webp?v=1763863284","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/democracy-and-difference-contesting-the-boundaries-of-the-political-paperback-1","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}