Ebook: Democracy After Liberalism: Pragmatism and Deliberative Politics

Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What Liberalism Is -- 3. Tension in Liberal Theory -- 4. Three Liberal Responses -- 5. The Deliberative Turn in Democratic Theory -- 6. A Pragmatist Conception of Deliberative Democracy -- 7. Toward a Deliberative Culture -- Endnotes -- Works Cited -- Index.;This book critically evaluates liberalism, the dominant attempt in the tradition of political philosophy to provide a philosophical foundation for democracy, and argues for a conception of deliberative democracy to meet this need.