Of Democracy, Discourse, and Dirt Virtue: Developments in Recent Critical Theory

Political Theory

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 540-564

  Coles, Romand ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84997901882     PISSN: 00905917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0090591700028004005     Document Type: Review

References (10)

1. Jürgen Habermas, Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy, trans. William Rehg (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996), 307–8.
2. Habermas reflects upon this development in “Further Reflections on the Public Sphere,” in Habermas and the Public Sphere, ed. Craig Calhoun (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992), 444.
3. Jürgen Habermas, “Discourse Ethics,” in Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action, trans. Cristian Lenhardt and Shierry Weber Nicholsen (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990), 104.
4. Jürgen Habermas, Justification and Application: Remarks on Discourse Ethics, trans. Ciaran P. Cronin (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993), 24, 1.
5. See Will Kymlicka, Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1995).
6. John Rawls, “Reply to Habermas” in Political Liberalism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996), 397, 389, 380.
7. See Thomas McCarthy, “Complexity and Democracy: The Seduction of Systems Theory” in Ideals and Illusions: On Reconstruction and Deconstruction in Contemporary Critical Theory (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991).
8. Romand Coles, Rethinking Generosity: Critical Theory and the Politics of Caritas (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997), chap. 3.
9. Albrecht Wellmer, The Persistence of Modernity: Essays on Aesthetics, Ethics, and Postmodernism, trans. David Midgley (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991).
10. I employ “dirt” here in the sense that Mary Douglas develops in Purity and Danger (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1966).