Deliberative Freedom: Deliberative Democracy As Critical Theory

✍ Scribed by Christian F. Rostboll

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 324
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The first sustained look at the relationship between deliberative democratic theory and the topic of freedom.

✦ Table of Contents

Deliberative Freedom......Page 2
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
Why “Dimensions” of Freedom?......Page 20
Overview of the Book......Page 25
Beyond the Aggregation and Transformation Dichotomy......Page 30
The Negative Freedom Tradition and Democracy......Page 42
Conclusion......Page 54
2. Republican Freedom and Discursive Status......Page 56
Domination without Interference......Page 57
Republican Freedom and Demoracy......Page 62
Deliberative Democracy beyond Republicanism......Page 79
Conclusion......Page 86
3. Preferences and Paternalism......Page 90
Nonautonomously Formed Preferences......Page 92
Paternalism......Page 106
Collective Self-Legislation and Freedom as Status......Page 113
Conclusion......Page 117
4. Freedom as Accommodation: The Limits of Rawlsian Deliberative Democracy......Page 120
The Accommodation of Reasonable Doctrines and Negative Freedom......Page 122
Public Reason and Reasonableness......Page 127
Political and Moral Autonomy......Page 141
Conclusion......Page 143
5. Freedom as Emancipation: Deliberative Democracy as Critical Theory......Page 144
The Critique of Ideology and Internal Autonomy......Page 146
Deliberation and Politicization......Page 152
Social Critics, Triggering Self-Reflection, and Public Autonomy......Page 156
Conclusion......Page 162
6. Democratic Ethos and Procedural Independence......Page 164
The Interdependence of the Ethical and the Moral......Page 165
Deliberation and Privacy......Page 169
Democratic Ethos......Page 172
Thinking for Oneself......Page 177
Conclusion......Page 185
7. Freedom, Reason, and Participation......Page 186
The Epistemic Dimension of Deliberative Democracy......Page 187
Reason, Freedom, and Radical Democracy......Page 195
Participation, Freedom, and Neutrality......Page 210
Conclusion......Page 218
Four Conceptions of Freedom Reinterpreted......Page 220
A Multidimensional Theory of Deliberation and Freedom......Page 229
On the Need for Institutional Reformand Economic Redistribution......Page 237
Notes......Page 244
Bibliography......Page 296
C......Page 316
D......Page 318
H......Page 319
M......Page 320
P......Page 321
S......Page 322
Z......Page 323