The Crisis of Democratic Pluralism: The Loss of Confidence in Reason and the Clash of Worldviews

Preface
Contents
About the Author
Part I: Democracy and Freedom: Pluralism, Reason, and Relativism
	Chapter 1: Introduction: Democracy in Crisis?
		What the Crisis Is Not
		The Democratic System and Democratic Values
		Familiar Practical Problems Facing the Democratic System
		Overview of the Crisis: Themes of This Book
	Chapter 2: Freedom and Disagreement in a Democracy
		Locke and Mill on Freedom
		Mill’s Arguments for Freedom of Thought and Expression
		Does Freedom of Expression Lead to Relativism?
		The Temptation to Suppress “Objectionable” Views
	Chapter 3: Worldviews, Pluralism, and Loss of Confidence in Reason
		Worldviews and Pluralism
		The Problem of Worldview Pluralism and its Origin: A Tentative Causal Argument
		Loss of Confidence in Reason: Anti-Realist Views of Knowledge
		Pluralism as a Cultural Phenomenon
	Chapter 4: Democracy and Relativism
		Relativism as a Cultural Phenomenon
		A Postmodern World
		Relativism as Rhetorical Strategy
		Relativism in Ordinary Moral Debate
		Problems for Relativism
		Disagreement, Incommensurability, and Relativism
Part II: Secularization and Political Liberalism: The Exclusion of Religion
	Chapter 5: Religion, and the Rise of Secularism
		The Worldviews of Religion and Secularism
		Areas of Disagreement and Some Qualifications
		Secularism and Western Societies
		Case Study: Philosophical Secularism in the Work of Philip Kitcher
	Chapter 6: Secularizing Society
		Secularism and Secularization
		The Secularization Thesis
		Reflections on the Concept of “The Secular”
		Passive and Active Secularism
		Case Study: Republic of Ireland
		Immature and Mature Secularism
	Chapter 7: Secular Liberalism and the Exclusion of Religious Worldviews
		Assumptions of Modern Secular Liberalism
		Reasonable Pluralism in John Rawls
		Rawls and Habermas on Public Reason
		Audi on Excluding Religious Views from Democratic Politics
Part III: Reasonable Worldviews and Public Deliberation: The Way Ahead
	Chapter 8: Public Reason
		Reasonable Pluralism and Interpretations of Public Reason
		How Would Public Reasoning Work?
		Rejecting Public Reason?
		Case Study: Arguing About Abortion in the Public Square
		The Reasoning Process Versus the Conclusions of Reason
	Chapter 9: Worldviews in Politics, and the Failure of Liberalism
		Religion in Politics
		Case Study: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Civil Rights
		Assessment of Rawls and Political Liberalism
		Secularism, Religion, and Politics
	Chapter 10: Re-envisioning Church and State
		Re-envisioning the “Separation” of Church and State
		Democracy and Populism
		A Worry About the Tyranny of the Majority
		Guidelines for Public Discourse: Ten Suggestions
Bibliography
Index