What Is Pluralism?

Informationen zum Autor Volker Kaul teaches at the Department of Political Science at LUISS "Guido Carli" University in Rome and is lecturer at the CEA Rome Center, Italy. He also coordinates the research area "East–West Dialogues" for the foundation Reset–Dialogues on Civilizations. Ingrid Salvatore is an associate professor of political philosophy at the University of Salerno, Italy. Zusammenfassung This book traces the origins of pluralism in contemporary political thought, and presents new, original interpretations of the idea by contemporary philosophers. The essays in the volume bring clarity into an ongoing fractious debate and reveal the underlying roots and fissures in our understanding of a dynamic and contested idea. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction PART I: Epistemic Pluralism and Democracy 1. From Pluralism to Liberalism: The Long Way Around 2. Pluralism and Deliberation 3. Social Choice or Collective Decision-making: What is Politics All About? 4. Liberalism, Pluralism, and a Third Way PART II: Political Pluralism and Reasonable Consensus 5. Sideways at the Entrance of the Cave: A Pluralist Footnote to Plato 6. Pluralism and the Possibility of a Liberal Political Consensus 7. Modus Vivendi Liberalism, Practice-dependence and Political Legitimacy 8. A Pluralist Model of Democracy 9. Rawls, Religion, and the Clash of Civilizations PART III: Cultures, Religions, and Politics 10. The Practice of Liberty 11. Sharing a Conception of Justice, Sharing a Conception of the Good: Liberalism as a Pluralist Theory vs. Pluralism as a Non-Liberal Theory 12. Pluralism and Solidarity: Non-Authoritarian Reasoning and Non-Fundamentalist Attitude 13. Populism, Liberalism and Nationalism

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• Authors: Volker Salvatore Kaul
• Assisted by: Volker Kaul (Editor), Kaul Volker (Editor), Ingrid Salvatore (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9780367410599
• ISBN: 978-0-367-41059-9
• No. of pages: 246
• Series: Ethics, Human Rights and Global Political Thought; Ethics, Human Rights and Globa
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Political Ideologies, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, Asia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Philosophy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, Politics & government, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Political structures: democracy, Politics and government, Political science and theory, Political ideologies and movements