Public Philosophy in a New Key: Volume 1, Democracy and Civic Freedom (Ideas in Context) (v. 1)

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Dedication......Page 9
Contents......Page 11
Acknowledgments......Page 14
Volume I......Page 16
Volume II......Page 17
Introduction......Page 19
Public philosophy and civic freedom: a guide to the two volumes......Page 21
PART 1 Approaching practice......Page 31
Introduction......Page 33
1 Practices of governance......Page 37
2 Contemporary surveys......Page 43
3 Historical surveys......Page 49
4 Public philosophy and public affairs......Page 55
Introduction......Page 57
1 Habermas’ picture of critical reflection......Page 59
2 Understanding Habermas’ practice of validation......Page 65
2.i Three features of giving grounds......Page 66
2.ii Questioning the validity claim of rightness......Page 72
2.iii Questioning with the validity claim of rightness......Page 77
3 Interpretation as a practice of critical reflection......Page 80
3.i Interpretation and understanding......Page 82
3.ii Understanding is not an implicit interpretation......Page 86
Conclusion......Page 88
Introduction......Page 89
1 Two philosophies of critical reflection on limits in the present: what they have in common......Page 91
2 Foucault’s approach......Page 94
3 Habermas’ approach......Page 101
4 Transition to Foucault’s four reciprocal objections......Page 111
5 Objection one: habermas’ approach is less critical......Page 112
6 Objection two: foucault’s approach is reasonable......Page 123
7 Objection three: a genealogy of the decentred subject......Page 131
8 Objection four: utopia versus communication–power–freedom......Page 137
PART 2 Democracy and recognition......Page 151
1 ‘What is game? Who got game?’......Page 153
2 Citizen participation as the practice of freedom......Page 163
3 Diverse forms of citizen participation......Page 166
4 Diverse practices of governance in which citizens participate......Page 172
Introduction......Page 178
1 Freedom and citizenship......Page 179
2 Three characteristics of identity politics......Page 184
3 Three types of demand for recognition......Page 188
4 Who decides and by what procedures so that a sense of belonging is nurtured?......Page 192
5 Belonging and on-going struggles over recognition......Page 198
Introduction......Page 203
1 Freedom in multinational democracies......Page 206
2.i A multinational society......Page 209
2.ii Four dimensions of constitutional identity......Page 212
2.iii The right to initiate constitutional change and the duty to acknowledge and answer......Page 215
3.i The main features of a struggle over the recognition of a people......Page 217
3.ii Plurality and the game of mutual disclosure and acknowledgment......Page 223
4.i The turn to democratic constitutionalism in theory and practice......Page 227
4.ii The procedures for reaching agreements......Page 230
5 Conclusion: freedom asself-determination in multinational democracies......Page 233
PART 3 Indigenous peoples......Page 239
Introduction......Page 241
1 Two types of relationship: treaty and colonial......Page 243
3 Mutual recognition......Page 247
The confederation of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians......Page 253
4 Intercultural dialogue......Page 257
5 Mutual respect......Page 260
6 Sharing......Page 262
7 Mutual responsibility......Page 268
8 Aboriginal self-government and liberal democracy......Page 270
Conclusion......Page 273
Introduction......Page 275
1 Internal colonisation and arts of resistance......Page 276
2 Legitimations of internal colonisation......Page 284
3 Struggles for freedom......Page 294
4 Struggles of freedom......Page 305
Conclusion......Page 307
Introduction......Page 309
1 What are struggles over recognition?......Page 311
2 The interrelation of recognition and distribution......Page 315
3 The monological and finality orientation......Page 318
4 From monologue to dialogue......Page 319
5 From consensus to reasonable disagreement and non-finality......Page 324
6 Dialogical civic freedom and practices of citizenisation......Page 328
Conclusion: public philosophy in a new key......Page 332
Bibliography......Page 335
Index to Volume I......Page 375
Ideas in context......Page 379