Deliberative Theory and Deconstruction

Deliberative Theory and Deconstruction PDF Author: Gormley Steven Gormley
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474475302
Category : Critical theory
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Book Description
Our political climate is increasingly characterised by hostility towards constructed others. Steven Gormley answers the question: what does it mean to do justice to others? He pursues this question by developing a critical, but productive, dialogue between deliberative theory and deconstruction. Two key claims emerge from this. First: doing justice to the other demands that we maintain an ethos of interruption. And secondly: Such an ethos requires a democratic form of politics. In developing this account, Gormley places deliberative theory and deconstruction into critical conversation with the work of Mouffe, Aristotle, Rorty, Laclau and different traditions of critical theory.