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Author Bailey, Tom

Title Deprovincializing Habermas : Global Perspectives
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (258 pages)
Series Ethics, Human Rights and Global Political Thought
Ethics, human rights and global political thought.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Introduction; I. Democratizing; 1. Back to Kant? The Democratic Deficits in Habermas' Global Constitutionalism; 2. Democratizing International Law: A Republican Reading of Habermas' Cosmopolitan Project; 3. Feminist Solidarity in India: Communitarian Challenges and Postnational Prospects; 4. Deliberation Without Democracy? Reflections on Habermas, Mini-publics and China; II. Decolonizing; 5. Defending Habermas against Eurocentrism: Latin America and Mignolo's Decolonial Challenge
6. Care, Power and Deconstructive Postcolonialism: Reformulating the Habermasian Response7. From Communicative Modernity to Modernities in Tension; III. Desecularizing; 8. What is Living and What is Dead in Habermas' Secularization Hypothesis?; 9. Reason and Li Xing: A Chinese Solution to Habermas' Problem of Moral Motivation; 10. Radicalizing the Postsecular Thesis, Provincializing Habermas; About the Editor; Notes on Contributors; Index
Summary This volume engages with Jürgen Habermas's political theory from critical perspectives beyond its Western European origins. In particular, it explores the challenges of democratizing, decolonizing and desecularizing his theory for global contexts, and proposes 'deprovincializing' reformulations for contemporary political and social issues
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Subject Habermas, J̈urgen -- Political and social views
SUBJECT Habermas, Jürgen fast
Subject POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
Political and social views
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781317560241
1317560248