Contents -- Part One Introduction -- Deliberative Democracy and Human Rights: An Introduction -- 1 The Death of a Public Intellectual -- Part Two Ethical Bases of International Human Rights -- 2 Personal Rights and Public Space -- 3 In the Beginning Was the Deed -- 4 Autonomy and Consequences -- 5 On Philosophy and Human Rights -- Part Three Nation-Building, Constitutionalism, and Democracy -- 6 The Moral Reading and the Majoritarian Premise -- 7 Constitutionalism, Democracy, and State Decay -- 8 Constitutionalism and Democracy -- 9 Group Aspirations and Democratic Politics -- Part Four Democracy and Deliberation -- 10 Creating the Conditions for Democracy -- 11 Power Under State Terror -- 12 Deliberation, Disagreement, and Voting -- 13 Deliberative Democracy and Majority Rule: Reply to Waldron -- 14 The Epistemic Theory of Democracy Revisited -- 15 Democracy and Philosophy: A Reply to Stotzky and Waldron -- Part Five Confronting Radical Evil -- 16 Punishment and the Rule of Law -- 17 From Dictatorship to Democracy: The Role of Transitional Justice -- 18 Dictatorship and Punishment: A Reply to Scanlon and Teitel -- 19 Human Rights and Democracy in Practice: The Challenge of Accountability -- List of Contributors -- Index.