Problems for Democracy

Judith PRESLER: Editorial Foreword
John KULTGEN: Preface
John KULTGEN and Mary LENZI: Acknowledgments
Donald A.WELLS, Ronald J. GLOSSOP, Beth J.SINGER, and Mary LENZI: Introduction: Is There a Connection between Democracy and Peace?
Part One: Divisions in Society and Obstacles to Democratic Discourse
Introduction
Ron HIRSCHBEIN and Jason SUPPUS: Semiotics of Meaninglessness: Cornel West ’s Explication of Inner-City Nihilism
Howard HARRIOTT: Moral Pessimism and the Ideals of Democracy
Edward SANKOWSKI: South African Democracy, Multi-Culturalism, Rights, and Community
Gilburt GOFFSTEIN: Exploring Problems of Democracy with Perspectives of Jürgen Habermas and Zen Buddhism
Jerald RICHARDS: Hiroshima, Morality, and Democracy
Part Two: Public Participation in Political and Economic Processes
Introduction
William C. GAY: Democracy in Market Economies
Thomas CHRISTIANO: Political Equality and the Independent Power of Private Property
Beth J. SINGER: Rights and Affirmative Action
Judith PRESLER: The Procedural Republic
Matthew SILLIMAN: Living Democracy Despite the Rule of Law: Civil Disobedience as Political Narrative
Part Three: Democracy and Routes to Peace
Introduction
Donald A.WELLS: Unnecessary Suffering and Superfluous Injury
Brian LUKE: Exclusion of Soldiers from War-Making Decisions
Ali ERRISHI: Recursive Metaphysics Is Bad for Democracy
Andrew KELLEY: Toward a Reformulation of the Doctrine of Pacifism
Gregory P. FIELDS: Gandhi and Dewey: Education for Peace
Mary LENZI: Philosophers, Peace, and Problems for Democracy
Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index