{"product_id":"reasonable-democracy","title":"Reasonable Democracy","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eReasonable Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e, Simone Chambers describes, explains, and defends a discursive politics inspired by the work of Jürgen Habermas. In addition to comparing Habermas's ideas with other non-Kantian liberal theories in clear and accessible prose, Chambers develops her own views regarding the role of discourse and its importance within liberal democracies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeginning with a deceptively simple question—\"Why is talking better than fighting?\"—Chambers explains how the idea of talking provides a rich and compelling view of morality, rationality, and political stability. She considers talking as a way for people to respect each other as moral agents, as a way to reach reasonable and legitimate solutions to disputes, and as a way to reproduce and strengthen shared understandings. In the course of this argument, she defends modern universalist ethics, communicative rationality, and what she calls a \"discursive political culture,\" a concept that locates the political power of discourse and deliberation not so much in institutions of democratic decision-making as in the type of conversations that go on around these institutions. While discourse and deliberation cannot replace voting, bargaining, or compromise, Chambers argues, it is important to maintain a background moral conversation in which to anchor other activities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs an extended case study, Chambers examines the conversation about language rights that has been taking place for more than twenty years in Quebec. A culture of dialogue, she shows, has proved a positive and powerful force in resolving some of the disagreements between the two linguistic communities there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Simone Chambers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43571821772982,"sku":"9780801426681","price":108.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780801426681_3574d770-e2f2-4901-b394-e8ef7e124973.jpg?v=1725625632","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/reasonable-democracy","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}