Must Politics Be War?: Restoring Our Trust in the Open Society

ISBN-13: 9780190632830 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 256 str.

Kevin Vallier

Opis

American politics seems like a war between irreconcilable forces and so we may suspect that political life as such is war. This book confronts these suspicions by arguing that liberal political institutions have the unique capacity to sustain social trust in diverse, open societies, undermining aggressive political partisanship.

Recenzje

offers a thoughtful and sophisticated elaboration of the public reason approach and carefully answers possible objections from those already familiar with it ... Recommended.

O autorze

Kevin Vallier is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University and Director of BGSU's Program in Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law. He is the author of Liberal Politics and Public Faith: Beyond Separation (Routledge, 2014) and over thirty peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. He is the co-editor of Political Utopias: Contemporary Debates (OUP, 2017) and Religious Exemptions (OUP, 2018).