Pragmatism, Rights, and Democracy

"Singer's theory of rights, an impressive development of social accounts by pragmatists George Herbert Mead and John Dewey, was developed in Operative Rights (1993). This successor volume includes applications, lectures, replies to critics, and clarifications. For Singer, Dewey, and Mead,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Singer, Beth J., author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York, NY : Fordham University Press [2019]
Series:American philosophy series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • 1. Four Principles of Traditional Theories of Rights
  • 2. An Alternative to the Dominant Tradition
  • 3. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Stuart Mill, and Thomas Hill Green on Natural Rights
  • 4. The Democratic Solution to Ethnic Pluralism
  • 5. Difference, Otherness, and the Creation of Community
  • 6. Multiculturalism, Identity, and Minority Rights: Will Kymlicka and the Concept of Special Rights
  • 7. Deep Diversity: Charles Taylor and the Politics of Federalism
  • 8. Pragmatism, Rights, and Democracy
  • 9. Reconciling Liberalism and Communitarianism
  • Postscript
  • Bibliography
  • Index