Pragmatist Politics: Making the Case for Liberal Democracy

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Ackerman, Bruce, 113 action, xxi, xxii–xxiii, 57–59, 66–67, 72, 81–83, 149; and beliefs, 42– 44, 46–47; and creativity, 7, 17– 18; and meaning, 69–70, 77–78; pragmatist theory of, 1–18, 34– 35; within a situation, xviii–xix, 4–5, 63 Addams, Jane, xxxi, 21 Agamben, Giorgio, 60 Arendt, Hannah, xvii, 84, 156; on forgiveness, 171; on rights, 131– 32, 134; on sovereignty, 141–42 argument, forms of, 39–41 Aristophanes, 153 Aristotle, 7, 133 Auden, W. H., 164 Austen, Jane, 152, 166, 175; Emma, 152; Pride and Prejudice, 152, 169– 70; Sense and Sensibility, 156–57 Austin, J. L., 85–86 Bahktin, Mikhail, 154, 155, 157, 169 Baier, Annette, 84 Balfour, Arthur, 54, 55 Barber, C. L., 154, 155, 157 Barth, John, 61–62 Beckett, Samuel, 160 Beitz, Charles, 124, 127 beliefs, 11–16, 35, 37–44, 67–68, 102 Benjamin, Walter, 51 Bergson, Henri, 156 Bill of Rights, 98, 121–22, 128–30 Bird, Graham, 40 bourgeois virtues, 179–80 Bradley, F. H., 144 Brandeis, Louis, 174 Brandom, Robert, 102, 104, 106–7 Bringing Up Baby, 170–71 Brown, Wendy, xix Bruns, Gerald, 155 Bruns, John, 149, 165 Buckley, F. H., 154 Buffett, Warren, 76 Burke, Edmund, 90, 179 Burke, Kenneth, xvii, xxiii, 2–3, 8–9, 14, 42, 45, 179, 181, 182; on comedy, 153, 155, 157, 174–75; on conversation, 106; on reason as social, 104–5 Bush, George W., 100, 146, 183 Butler, Judith, 141, 151 Byron, Lord, 157 capabilities approach, xxiii–xxiv, 16– 7, 37, 187–88 capitalism, 49–50. See also market, the Capra, Frank, 182; It’s a Wonderful Life, 182 Cavell, Stanley, xvii, 86, 150, 151, 155, 163, 166, 168, 169 Chamberlain, Joseph, 52–53 civic action, 72–73 civil liberties, xvii, xxx–xxxi, 21–23, 98, 179. See also human rights; rights Coetzee, J. M., 167 comedy, xvi, 46, 79, 115–17, 147, 149–57, 164–66, 174–75, 179–80, Index 225 186; and forgiveness, 171–72; and love, 168–71, and public forms, 175–76; and the secular, 158–62, 166–68; 181–82 communicability, 108–10, 135 community, 80, 84, 86, 89–90, 92, 125, 131, 149, 166 Comte, Auguste, 49 conflict, 95–96, 98, 100–101, 119, 128. See also violence conservatism, xii, 55–56, 76, 178, 184–85; and civil liberties, xxx– xxxi; and equality, xxviii–xxix, 92– 93, 96–97; and fatalism, 51, 62, 64; James’s account of, 12–13, 43; and justice, 94–95; and political belonging, 141; and power, 26; and responsibility, xix, 96–97; and social rights, 123 constitutions, 128–30, 177 conversation, 100–102, 106–7, 149, 169–71 conviviality, 72–74, 167 cooperation, 95, 109, 114, 116, 172, 182–83 Cranston, Maurice, 119 creativity, xxiii–xxiv, 16–17, 37, 101, 152, 157 culture, 90, 101 Dante, 159 Darwin, Charles, xviii, xix, 1, 4, 9, 34, 35, 47, 55, 59, 62 Davidson, Donald, 135 death, 136, 159–61, 163–65 deliberation, 111–14, 127–28 democracy, 66–71, 74, 174–75; and associated living, xi–xii, xix–xxi, 19–20, 71, 140; and communicative interaction, xiii–xvi, 22, 38, 110–11; and conflict, 90, 96, 100–101; and constitutions, 128– 30; as culture, xvi; and deliberation , 7–8, 111–14; and equality, 90–91; as ethical ideal (ethos), xi–xii, xix–xxi, 19–20, 71, 87–90, 95–97, 106–7; and pluralism, 13; and publics, xxviii–xxix; relation to capitalism, 176–79; and responsibility, xxxi–xxxii; as way of life, 79, 90–91, 114. See also liberal democracy Derrida, Jacques, 61, 176 Descartes, Rene, 33 desire, 151–52, 165–66, 175–76 Dewey, John, xi, xvi, xx–xxii, xxvi, 1, 4, 6, 16, 36, 40, 55, 58, 79, 84, 90, 92, 95, 137, 156, 157, 166, 168, 179, 180, 184; on associated living, xxviii–xxix, 21–24, 28, 42, 140, 142; and communication, 110–12; on deliberation, 112–14; on democracy, xiv, xxxi–xxxii, 19, 47, 68–71; on education, xxix– xxxi, 19–20, 41, 43; on effective freedom, 23–25, 28; on intelligence , xxxii, 6, 21, 44, 9, 63–64, 68–69, 95, 111–12; on liberalism, 20–26, 49; on meaning, 69–71; on morality, 60–61, 81; on philosophy , xi, xiv–xv, 18, 45–46; and pluralism, 22; on progress, 69–70; on reconstruction, xii, xvii–xix; on rights, 120–21, 124–25; and theory of action, 9–13 Diamond, Cora, 84 Dickens, Charles, 167 dogmatism, 33–34 Dostoyevsky...