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Civil Society in Liberal Democracy (Hardcover)
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Civil Society in Liberal Democracy (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
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In this contribution to contemporary political philosophy, Jensen
aims to develop a model of civil society for deliberative
democracy. In the course of developing the model, he also provides
a thorough account of the meaning and use of "civil society" in
contemporary scholarship as well as a critical review of rival
models, including those found in the work of scholars such as John
Rawls, Jurgen Habermas, Michael Walzer, Benjamin Barber, and Nancy
Rosenblum. Jensen's own ideal treats civil society as both the
context in which citizens live out their comprehensive views of the
good life as well as the context in which citizens learn to be good
deliberative democrats. According to his idealization, groups of
citizens in civil society are actively engaged in a grand
conversation about the nature of the good life. Their commitment to
this conversation grounds dispositions of epistemic humility,
tolerance, curiosity, and moderation. Moreover, their regard for
the grand conversation explains their interest in deliberative
democracy and their regard for democratic virtues, principles, and
practices. Jensen is not a naive utopian, however; he argues that
this ideal must be realized in stages, that it faces a variety of
barriers, and that it cannot be realized without luck.
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