Truth and Democracy.
Title:
Truth and Democracy.
Author:
Elkins, Jeremy.
ISBN:
9780812206227
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (359 pages)
Series:
Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Politics, Political Theory, and the Question of Truth -- From Nobel Lecture: Art, Truth, and Politics -- Part I: Opinion and Agreement -- 1 Concerning Practices of Truth -- 2 Truth and Politics -- 3 Truth and Disagreement -- 4 "Speaking Power to Truth" -- Part II: Authority and Justification -- 5 Cynicism, Skepticism, and the Politics of Truth -- 6 Democracy as a Space of Reasons -- 7 Truth and Democracy: Theme and Variations -- 8 On Truth and Democracy: Hermeneutic Responses -- 9 Too Soon for the Counterreformation -- 10 Response to Norris, Lynch, and Galston -- Part III: Decision and Deliberation -- 11 Democracy and the Love of Truth -- 12 J. S. Mill on Truth, Liberty, and Democracy -- 13 Can This Marriage Be Saved? The Relationship of Democracy and Truth -- 14 Democratic Politics and the Lovers of Truth -- Part IV: Truth and Public Reasons -- 15 Truth and Public Reason -- 16 The Truth in Political Liberalism -- 17 Truth at the Door of Public Reason: Response to Cohen and Estlund -- 18 Just Gimme Some Truth: A Pragmatist Proposal -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- List of Contributors.
Abstract:
Scholars from a variety of fields, including prominent political and legal theorists, philosophers, and intellectual historians, take up the question of whether democratic politics requires talk about truth, and, if so, how truth should matter to democratic politics.
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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