Empathy and Democracy: Feeling, Thinking, and Deliberation

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii 1 The Democratic Promise 1 2 The Deliberative Turn in Democratic Theory 18 3 The Elusive Concept of Empathy 39 4 Empathy in Deliberative Theory 67 5 Empathy’s Importance—The Empirical Evidence 101 6 Deliberative Democracy and Its Critics 129 7 Empathy and Democracy 158 References 197 Index 211 contents ...