Philosophy, Politics, Democracy: Selected Essays

Joshua Cohen

Published by Harvard University Press 2009

Philosophy, Politics, Democracy

Selected Essays

Joshua Cohen

https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674271579

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Over the past 20 years, Cohen has explored campaign finance and political equality, privacy rights and robust public debate, hate speech and pornography, and the capacity of democracies to address important practical problems. Here, Cohen draws on his work to develop an argument about what he calls, following Rawls, “democracy’s public reason.”

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For good reason, Joshua Cohen is widely regarded as among the leading political philosophers of his generation. Nearly all of these essays are highly original approaches to the topics discussed. Many of them are widely recognized by philosophers and political theorists as major and sometimes defining papers in their fields. Taken together, the collection develops an extremely impressive and intricate account of an ideal of democracy and democratic justice.
-- Samuel Freeman, University of Pennsylvania

Joshua Cohen ranks among the best and most influential political philosophers at work in the United States today. This uncommonly valuable volume will be a required purchase for anybody whose own work is at the boundary of philosophy and politics.
-- Charles Beitz, Princeton University

Joshua Cohen is the leading political philosopher of deep democracy of his generation. This book is profound, subtle, and relevant. We need his wise and powerful voice in this age of Obama.
-- Cornel West, Princeton University

Joshua Cohen's Philosophy, Politics, Democracy is a major contribution to all three. With arguments that have long been at the cutting edge of political philosophy, Cohen develops a distinctive conception of democracy as based upon reason-giving among equals, and he does so in a way that never ignores political reality. Daily political discourse, Cohen argues, contains conceptions of the social world that border on philosophical thought. Good philosophical argument develops those conceptions more rigorously and generally, and then returns to the world of politics to show how the conception might be realized there. All too often, Cohen observes, we respond to political ideals with 'a knowing irony of the intellect and a lassitude of the heart.' Realistic without cynicism, idealistic without naïveté, Cohen's book responds to the real world with rigorous intellectual aspiration and undaunted practical hope.
-- Martha C. Nussbaum, University of Chicago

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 Deliberation and Democratic Legitimacy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	16
2 Moral Pluralism and Political Consensus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
3 Associations and Democracy Joel Rogers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
4 Freedom of Expression Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	98
5 Procedure and Substance in Deliberative Democracy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
6 Directly Deliberative Polyarchy Charles Sabel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
7 Democracy and Liberty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
8 Money, Politics, Political Equality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	268
9 Privacy, Pluralism, and Democracy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
10 Reflections on Deliberative Democracy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	326
11 Truth and Public Reason Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	348
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Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 408

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Published: October 1, 2009
ISBN: 9780674271579