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Lexington Books Persuasion and Compulsion in Democracy 2015 Edition by Jacquelyn Kegley, Krzysztof Piotr Skowronski
This collection of essays focuses on the roles that coercion and persuasion should play in contemporary democratic political systems or societies. A number of the authors advocate new approaches to this question, offering various critiques of the dominant classical liberalism views of political justification, freedom, tolerance and the political subject. A major concern is with the conversational character of democracy. Given the problematic and ambiguous status of the many differences present in contemporary society, the authors seek to alert us to the danger, that an emphasis on reasonable consensus will conceal exclusion in practice of some contending positions. The voices of vulnerable peoples can be unconsciously or even deliberately silenced by various institutional processes and operating procedures and a strong media influence can change the tenor of conversations and even lead to deception. To counter these factors, a number of the essays, in differing ways, urge the fostering of local community conversations or democratic agoras so that democratic debate and conversation might maintain the vitality necessary to a strong democratic system. Table of contents :- Preface: New Visions and Public ActionsIntroduction: Re-assessing Compulsion and Persuasion in Democracy via a New FrameworkPart I: Public IssuesChapter 1: Between Rhetoric and Dialectic: On Persuasion and Other Compulsive Habits in DemocracyChapter 2: Democracy, Persuasion, or Inclusion?: The Sense of a CrisisChapter 3: Compulsion and Persuasion in a Democracy of Split LevelsChapter 4: Hegemony, Social Inquiry, and the Primacy of Practical ReasonPart II: Theoretical MattersChapter 5: Keeping Radical Democracy Pragmatic: The Vanishing Subject in Laclau and Mouffe's Politics of the RealChapter 6: A Good Citizen: The Forlorn Hope of Freedom and Rational persuasion Beyond Compulsion - A Pragmatist ViewChapter 7: Pragmatist Philosophy and Persuasive Discourse: Dewey and Rorty on the Role of Non-Logical Changes in Belief Chapter 8: Constructivist Problems, Realist SolutionsPart III: ActionsChapter 9: A Pragmatist Communicative Ethics for Politics and Everyday Life: Persuasion and Compulsion in DemocracyChapter 10: Persuasion and Compulsion in Radical Democracy: Some Insights from John DeweyChapter 11: Aesthetic Persuasion and Political Compulsion: Literary Philosophy in Light of Richard Rorty's Ideas of Democratic Liberalism and Cultural PoliticsChapter 12: The Global Learning Chain and Baltimore City's Filipino Teachers: Persuasion and Compulsion in the ClassroomChapter 13: Persuasion and Compulsion in Democratic Urban PlanningIndexAbout the Contributors