The Democratic Theory of Hans-Georg Gadamer (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

Preface and Acknowledgements 1. Paying Attention to Reality 1.1 Plato's Cave and the Critique of Modern Theory 1.2 Democratic Theory in a Hermeneutical Register 2. Disclosing Truth 2.1 Knowing the Good 2.2 The Sedimentation of Truth in Language 2.3 Truth as Unconcealedness 2.4 Truth and Democratic Politics 3. Conversation and Understanding 3.1 Gadamer's Phenomenology of Conversation 3.2 Risking Prejudices 3.3 12 Angry Men 3.4 The Epistemic Demands of Deliberative Democracy 3.5 The Rhetorical Turn 3.6 Rhetoric, Truth, and Democratic Dialogue 4. Tradition, Religion, and Democratic Citizenship 4.1 Religion and the Public Sphere 4.2 Gadamer on Tradition 4.3 Conceptualizing Religion as Tradition 4.4 Religious Identity and the Ethics of Democratic Citizenship 5. Solidarity, Friendship, and Democratic Hope 5.1 Friendship 5.2 Difference 5.3 Solidarity 5.4 Democratic Hope Epilogue: Between Citizens Bibliography Index