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Truth and democracy /

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.

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Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Group Author: Elkins, Jeremy; Norris, Andrew
Published: University of Pennsylvania Press,
Publisher Address: Philadelphia, Pa. :
Publication Dates: [2012]
©2012
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Democracy, citizenship, and constitutionalism
Subjects:
Democracy > Philosophy.
Political ethics.
Truth > Political aspects.
Political Science, other.
Political science.
Politik.
Social sciences.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Democracy. > Democracy.
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812206227
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Summary: 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.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (352 pages) : illustrations.
ISBN: 9780812206227
Index Number: JC423
CLC: D082
Contents: Frontmatter --
Contents --
Introduction: Politics, Political Theory, and the Question of Truth /
From Nobel Lecture: Art, Truth, and Politics /
Chapter 1. Concerning Practices of Truth /
Chapter 2. Truth and Politics /
Chapter 3. Truth and Disagreement /
Chapter 4. "Speaking Power to Truth" /
Chapter 5. Cynicism, Skepticism, and the Politics of Truth /
Chapter 6. Democracy as a Space of Reasons /
Chapter 7. Truth and Democracy: Theme and Variations /
Chapter 8. On Truth and Democracy: Hermeneutic Responses /
Chapter 9. Too Soon for the Counterreformation /
Chapter 11. Democracy and the Love of Truth /
Chapter 12. J. S. Mill on Truth, Liberty, and Democracy /
Chapter 13. Can This Marriage Be Saved? The Relationship of Democracy and Truth /
Chapter 14. Democratic Politics and the Lovers of Truth /
Chapter 15. Truth and Public Reason /
Chapter 16. The Truth in Political Liberalism /
Chapter 17. Truth at the Door of Public Reason: Response to Cohen and Estlund /
Chapter 18. Just Gimme Some Truth: A Pragmatist Proposal /
Notes --
Index --
Contributors.

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