Democracy and the Post-Totalitarian Experience (Value Inquiry Book, 167)

Contents......Page 8
Foreword......Page 12
Preface......Page 14
PART 1 Democracy and National Identity......Page 16
ONE In the Name of the Nation … In the Name of the Market. What Was Our Revolution For?......Page 18
TWO Democracy, Ideology, and Nationalism: Democratic Reconstruction and Post-Totalitarian Eastern Europe......Page 28
PART 2 Religion, Moral Values, and the Overthrow of Totalitarianism......Page 36
THREE Post-Communist Transition and Catholicism in Poland......Page 38
FOUR Religion and Politics in Poland: Political Discourse, Toleration, and Neutrality......Page 54
PART 3 Liberalism and Democracy......Page 64
FIVE After Marxism: Democratic Liberalism and Hegelian Recognition......Page 66
SIX Communitarian Critique of Liberalism and the Problem of Democracy and Pluralism in Poland......Page 76
PART 4 Democracy and Public Reason......Page 86
SEVEN Public Reason and Higher Law: Reflections on John Rawls and the Idea of Public Reason......Page 88
EIGHT Justification and Public Reason in a Democracy......Page 100
PART 5 Participatory Democracy and Social Justice......Page 110
NINE Public Choice Theory and the Post-Totalitarian State......Page 112
TEN Academic Freedom and a Democratic Society......Page 122
PART 6 The Electronic Media and Democracy......Page 132
ELEVEN Democracy, the Media, and the Post-Totalitarian Experience......Page 134
TWELVE Internet and Electronic Democracy......Page 154
PART 7 Procedural Transformation......Page 164
THIRTEEN Detotalitarization and the Ambiguity of Moral Codes......Page 166
FOURTEEN Politics of Exclusion and the Lustration Debate......Page 178
PART 8 American Philosophical Conceptions: Implications for Democratization......Page 196
FIFTEEN Josiah Royce’s Philosophy of Loyalty as a Basis for Democratic Ethics......Page 198
SIXTEEN Pragmatism as a Political Philosophy for Emerging Democracies......Page 208
SEVENTEEN Guiding Post-Totalitarian Economic Democratization through Deweyan Radical Pragmatism......Page 218
About the Contributors......Page 234
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W......Page 239