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Democracy and the Post-Totalitarian Experience.
Title:
Democracy and the Post-Totalitarian Experience.
Author:
Koczanowicz, Leszek.
ISBN:
9789401201261
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (253 pages)
Series:
Value Inquiry Book Series, 167 ; v.167

Value Inquiry Book Series, 167
Contents:
Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- PART 1 Democracy and National Identity -- ONE In the Name of the Nation … In the Name of the Market. What Was Our Revolution For? -- TWO Democracy, Ideology, and Nationalism: Democratic Reconstruction and Post-Totalitarian Eastern Europe -- PART 2 Religion, Moral Values, and the Overthrow of Totalitarianism -- THREE Post-Communist Transition and Catholicism in Poland -- FOUR Religion and Politics in Poland: Political Discourse, Toleration, and Neutrality -- PART 3 Liberalism and Democracy -- FIVE After Marxism: Democratic Liberalism and Hegelian Recognition -- SIX Communitarian Critique of Liberalism and the Problem of Democracy and Pluralism in Poland -- PART 4 Democracy and Public Reason -- SEVEN Public Reason and Higher Law: Reflections on John Rawls and the Idea of Public Reason -- EIGHT Justification and Public Reason in a Democracy -- PART 5 Participatory Democracy and Social Justice -- NINE Public Choice Theory and the Post-Totalitarian State -- TEN Academic Freedom and a Democratic Society -- PART 6 The Electronic Media and Democracy -- ELEVEN Democracy, the Media, and the Post-Totalitarian Experience -- TWELVE Internet and Electronic Democracy -- PART 7 Procedural Transformation -- THIRTEEN Detotalitarization and the Ambiguity of Moral Codes -- FOURTEEN Politics of Exclusion and the Lustration Debate -- PART 8 American Philosophical Conceptions: Implications for Democratization -- FIFTEEN Josiah Royce's Philosophy of Loyalty as a Basis for Democratic Ethics -- SIXTEEN Pragmatism as a Political Philosophy for Emerging Democracies -- SEVENTEEN Guiding Post-Totalitarian Economic Democratization through Deweyan Radical Pragmatism -- About the Contributors -- Index -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W.
Abstract:
This book presents the work of Polish and American philosophers about Poland's transition from Communist domination to democracy. Among their topics are nationalism, liberalism, law and justice, academic freedom, religion, fascism, and anti-Semitism. Beyond their insights into the ongoing situation in Poland, these essays have broader implications, inspiring reflection on dealing with needed social changes.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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