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Democracia Republicana / Republican Democracy

By Charles Taylor
Subjects Political Science, Philosophy
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Paperback : 9789560003249, 109 pages, April 2012

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Table of Contents (English) for
Democracia Republicana / Republican Democracy, by Charles Taylor

Preface

Charles Taylor | Some Conditions of a Viable Democracry

Appendix: Renato Cristi / J. Ricardo Tranjan: Charles Taylor and Republican Democracy

Description

In this essay Charles Taylor defines what is essential to democracy beyond its institutional manifestations—namely, representative institutions, popular suffrage, and political parties. Taylor supports a republican democratic theory, which he opposes to neoliberal democracy. Neoliberalism views democracy instrumentally and attaches no intrinsic value to political participation and self-government. Following Tocqueville, Taylor emphasizes the identification of citizens with the common good while rejecting monolithic constructions of a Rousseauean general will. Taylor seeks to outline a republican democratic theory that responds to contemporary challenges, particularly those that relate to the exclusion of cultural minorities in increasingly multicultural societies. The essential characteristic of the Tocquevillian compromise attained by Taylor is a sincere and innovative appreciation of diversity. First presented in Chile in 1986, Democracia Republicana / Republican Democracy foresees a republican solution for the problems generated by the neoliberal democratic system inherited from Pinochet’s dictatorship. The essay was missing for many years and was only recently discovered. It is published here for the first time in both Spanish and English.

Published by LOM Ediciones, Santiago, Chile and distributed in North America by Wilfrid Laurier University Press.