Description: Reexamines the normative justification for democratic politics.
Brief description: Paul Fairfield teaches philosophy at Queen's University in Ontario and is the author of several books, including Moral Selfhood in the Liberal Tradition: The Politics of Individuality; Public/Private; and The Ways of Power: Hermeneutics, Ethics, and Social Criticism.
Review Quotes:
"This book is well written, polemically forthright, and lucid. I like how the author places participatory and deliberative theories in the context of conflict. He is part of a trend that is interested less in the analytic rigor of political theories than in their function either as political ideologies or as moves within an irresolvable conflict over power." -- Peter Breiner, author of Max Weber and Democratic Politics