Empathy and Democracy

Feeling, Thinking, and Deliberation

Autor: Michael E. Morrell

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Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: Pennsylvania State University Press

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Democracy harbors within it fundamental tensions between the ideal of giving everyone equal consider...

Informacje o książce

Autor

Michael E. Morrell

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

2010

strony

232

EAN

9780271036601

ISBN

0271036605

Enbook ID

04564564

Wydawca

Pennsylvania State University Press

Waga

376

Wymiary

154 x 229 x 15

Pełny opis

Democracy harbors within it fundamental tensions between the ideal of giving everyone equal consideration and the reality of having to make legitimate, binding collective decisions. Democracies have granted political rights to more groups of people, but formal rights have not always guaranteed equal consideration or democratic legitimacy. It is Michael Morrell's argument in this book that empathy plays a crucial role in enabling democratic deliberation to function the way it should. Drawing on empirical studies of empathy, including his own, Morrell offers a "process model of empathy" that incorporates both affect and cognition. He shows how this model can help democratic theorists who emphasize the importance of deliberation answer their critics.

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