Democratic Culture: Historical and Philosophical Essays (Critical Interventions in Theory and Praxis)
Author: Akeel Bilgrami (Editor)
Publisher: Routledge India
Edition: 1st edition
Publication Date: 2011-04-26
Language: English
Paperback: 246 pages
ISBN-10: 0415589916
ISBN-13: 9780415589918
Book Description
A collection of essays by distinguished scholars, this book delineates a substantial conception of democracy, the great promise as well as the pitfalls of a democratic mentality and culture. These essays go beyond the institutional and formal descriptions of democracy to its underlying cultural context ― expressed both historically and analytically, descriptively and normatively.
About the Author
Akeel Bilgrami is at present Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Heyman Centre for the Humanities at Columbia University. He has written extensively on philosophy of mind and language as well as on political and moral psychology. He is the author of Belief and Meaning (1992), Self-Knowledge and Resentment (2006), Politics and the Moral Psychology of Identity (forthcoming), What Is a Muslim? (forthcoming), and Gandhi’s Integrity (forthcoming).
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