Justice and Democracy

by Bontekoe, Ronald; Stepaniants, Marietta T.

• ISBN13: 9780824819262
• ISBN10: 0824819268
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-05-01
• Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr

Table of Contents

Preface	1	(4)
Acknowledgments	5	(63)
1. Theoretical Approaches	9	(68)
Richard Rorty
Justice as a Larger Loyalty	9	(14)
Erikh Solovyov
Law as Politicians' Morality	23	(14)
Maria Pia Lara
Justice and Solidarity: The Case of Recognition	37	(14)
Kenneth Baynes
Equality and Difference in Democratic Theory	51	(10)
Ron Bontekoe
Grounding a Theory of Rights in Fallibilist Epistemology	61	(16)
2. Contemporary Problems of Application	77	(86)
Frank Cunningham
On Relating Justice and Democracy: A Strategy and a Hypothesis	77	(16)
Cass R. Sunstein
Deliberation, Democracy, Disagreement	93	(26)
J. E. Tiles
Democracy as Culture	119	(14)
Ted Honderich
Hierarchic Democracy and the Necessity of Mass Civil Disobedience	133	(16)
Svetozar Stojanovic
Post-Communism, Democracy, Nationality, and Capitalist Economy	149	(14)
3. Asian Perspectives	163	(112)
Ambrose Y. C. King
Confucianism, Modernity, and Asian Democracy	163	(18)
Chung-Ying Cheng
Can We Do Justice to All Theories of Justice? Toward Integrating Classical and Modern Paradigms of Justice	181	(18)
Yu Ying-shih
The Idea of Democracy and the Twilight of the Elite Culture in Modern China	199	(18)
Daya Krishna
Democracy and Justice: Presuppositions and Implications	217	(14)
Ramjee Singh
Gandhi's Conception of Democracy	231	(10)
Javid Iqbal
Democracy and Justice: Islam's Political Message Restated	241	(16)
Majid Fakhry
Western and Islamic Views of Democracy and Justice: A Comparative and Interpretative Study	257	(18)
4. Comparative Perspectives	275	(70)
David L. Hall
Roger T. Ames
Dewey, China, and the Democracy of the Dead	275	(18)
Joseph Grange
The Disappearance of the Public Good: Confucisu/Dewey/Rorty	293	(16)
David Loy
Freedom: A Buddhist Critique	309	(18)
Michael Barnhart
Buddhist Ethics and Social Justice	327	(18)
5. Postmodern Perspectives	345	(78)
Rosi Braidotti
Nomadic Subjects: Feminist Postmodernism as Antirelativism	345	(18)
Ernesto Laclau
Subject of Politics, Politics of the Subject	363	(18)
Chantal Mouffe
Democratic Identity and Pluralist Politics	381	(14)
Hans-Georg Moller
The Philosophy of Signs and Democratic Discourse: Coincidences between Chinese Pre- and Western Post-Modernity	395	(10)
James Buchanan
Beyond East and West: Postmodern Democracy in a Mode of Information	405	(18)
6. Principles of Cultural Dialogue	423	(44)
Marietta Stepaniants
The Ideal of Justice in the Context of Cultural Dialogue	423	(8)
Yersu Kim
World Change and the Cultural Synthesis of the West	431	(12)
Fred Dallmayr
Justice and Global Democracy	443	(24)
Contributors	467	(6)
Index	473