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Politics of Dialogue
Leszek Koczanowicz
其他書名
Non-consensual Democracy and Critical Community
出版Edinburgh University Press, 2014-12-10
主題Philosophy / PoliticalPolitical Science / GeneralPolitical Science / Political Ideologies / Democracy
ISBN07486440679780748644063
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=LAOErgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Contemporary democracy is in crisis. People are losing faith in in a system of democratic institutions that can cope with current social problems. The book sheds new light on this issue, drawing on the ideas of M. M. Bakhtin, American pragmatism, and others to show that dialogue in democracy can transcend both antagonistic and consensual perspectives. The author provides an overview of the history of the dialogue-vs.-antagonism opposition as it is embedded in modern political theory, and outlines the concept of dialogue in contemporary political thought. The author argues that dialogue is a value in and by itself and that it aims at better understanding rather than at consensus. Therefore, the main purpose of the democratic system is to promote better understanding. This idea is labelled as "non-consensual democracy".