The Burden of Democracy : The Claims of Cultures, Public Culture, And Democratic Memory /

This 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 c...

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Main Author: Souillac, Genevieve, 1969- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, 2011
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Table of Contents:
  • The burden of difference: pluralist justice and the public sphere
  • Moral conversations and democratic hermeneutics
  • Particularism versus universalism: a false debate?
  • Secularism, culture, and critique
  • Laïcité and the memory of public culture
  • The ties that bind: public culture and the debt to the past
  • Normative solidarity and public hermeneutics
  • From intersubjectivity to encounter
  • Exit of religion, debt of meaning