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Political theorists Jeremy Elkins and Andrew Norris observe that American political culture is deeply ambivalent about truth. On the one hand, voices on both the left and right make confident appeals to the truth of claims about the status of the market in public life and the role of scientific evidence and argument in public life, human rights, and even religion. On the other hand, there is considerable anxiety that such appeals threaten individualism and political plurality. This anxiety, Elkins and Norris contend, has perhaps been greatest in the humanities and in political theory, where many have responded by either rejecting or neglecting the whole topic of truth. The essays in this volume question whether democratic politics requires discussion of truth and, if so, how truth should matter to democratic politics. While individual essays approach the subject from different angles, the volume as a whole suggests that the character of our politics depends in part on what kinds of truthful inquiries it promotes and how it deals with various kinds of disputes about truth. The contributors to the volume, including prominent political and legal theorists, philosophers, and intellectual historians, argue that these are important political and not merely theoretical questions.

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• Celý názov: Truth and Democracy
• Autor: Jeremy Elkins, Andrew Norris
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Väzba: Pevná
• Počet strán: 352
• EAN: 9780812243796
• ISBN: 081224379X
• ID: 04724366
• Nakladateľ: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Hmotnosť: 646 g
• Rozmery: 166 × 236 × 26 mm
• Dátum vydania: 10. February 2012

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