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. Ed(S): Tinnevelt, Ronald; Geenens, Raf - Does Truth Matter? - 9781402088483 - V9781402088483
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Does Truth Matter?

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Description for Does Truth Matter? Hardback. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the debate on democracy, power and globalization. It presents different aspects as a coherent whole and integrates thinking about the principles of democracy with concrete political issues. Editor(s): Tinnevelt, Ronald; Geenens, Raf. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; LAB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 243 x 166 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.

The claim once made by philosophers of unique knowledge of the essence of humanity and society has fallen into disrepute. Neither Platonic forms, divine revelation nor metaphysical truth can serve as the ground for legitimating social and political norms. On the political level many seem to agree that democracy doesn’t need foundations. Nor are its citizens expected to discuss the worth of their comprehensive conceptions of the good life. According to Rawls, for example, we have to accept that “politics in a democratic society can never be guided by what we see as the whole truth (…)”. (1993: 243) And ... Read more

Because a good understanding of the function, meaning and shortcomings of the public sphere is essential to answering these questions, a good deal of the book addresses these issues.Historically, after all, the idea that citizens have to engage each other in discussion in order to determine the structure and goals of society, is connected to the rational ideal of a public sphere where conflicting views can be expressed, formed, and transformed. But hasn’t the collective decision making in which everyone participates on an equal footing turned out to be a deceptive ideal or a simple illusion? Not every individual in society has equal access to the podium. Furthermore, power, being an inevitable feature of the public sphere, seems to permanently endanger its democratic value. Moreover, the existence of this sphere depends on a specific ethos and particular public spaces where citizens are called upon to present themselves as citizens, as people taking responsibility for their society. It is not clear whether this ethos and these spaces exist at all, and if so, if they preserved their ascribed capacity for constituting ‘democratic’ truth? By answering these questions we expect to deepen our understanding of the relation between truth and democracy.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
194
Condition
New
Number of Pages
194
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781402088483
SKU
V9781402088483
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