CONTENTS

Preface 1 Acknowledgments 5 1.Theoretical Approaches

Richard Rorty Justice as a Larger Loyalty 9 Erikh Solovyov Law as Politicians’ Morality 23 María Pía Lara Justice and Solidarity: The Case of Recognition 37 Kenneth Baynes Equality and Difference in Democratic Theory 51 Ron Bontekoe Grounding a Theory of Rights in Fallibilist Epistemology 61 2. Contemporary Problems of Application

Frank Cunningham On Relating Justice and Democracy: A Strategy and a Hypothesis 77 Cass R. Sunstein Deliberation, Democracy, Disagreement 93 J. E. Tiles Democracy as Culture 119

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Ted Honderich Hierarchic Democracy and the Necessity of Mass Civil Disobedience 133

Svetozar Stojanovic´ Post-Communism, Democracy, Nationality, and Capitalist Economy 149 3. Asian Perspectives

Ambrose Y. C. King Confucianism, Modernity, and Asian Democracy 163

Chung-Ying Cheng Can We Do Justice to All Theories of Justice? Toward Integrating Classical and Modern Paradigms of Justice 181

Yü Ying-shih The Idea of Democracy and the Twilight of the Elite Culture in Modern China 199

Daya Krishna Democracy and Justice: Presuppositions and Implications 217

Ramjee Singh Gandhi’s Conception of Democracy 231

Javid Iqbal Democracy and Justice: Islam’s Political Message Restated 241

Majid Fakhry Western and Islamic Views of Democracy and Justice: A Comparative and Interpretative Study 257 4. Comparative Perspectives

David L. Hall and Roger T. Ames Dewey, China, and the Democracy of the Dead 275

Joseph Grange The Disappearance of the Public Good: Confucius/Dewey/ Rorty 293

David Loy Freedom: A Buddhist Critique 309

Michael Barnhart Buddhist Ethics and Social Justice 327 CONTENTS ix

5. Postmodern Perspectives

Rosi Braidotti Nomadic Subjects: Feminist Postmodernism as Antirelativism 345

Ernesto Laclau Subject of Politics, Politics of the Subject 363

Chantal Mouffe Democratic Identity and Pluralist Politics 381

Hans-Georg Möller The Philosophy of Signs and Democratic Discourse: Coincidences between Chinese Pre- and Western Post-Modernity 395

James Buchanan Beyond East and West: Postmodern Democracy in a Mode of Information 405 6. Principles of Cultural Dialogue

Marietta Stepaniants The Ideal of Justice in the Context of Cultural Dialogue 423

Yersu Kim World Change and the Cultural Synthesis of the West 431

Fred Dallmayr Justice and Global Democracy 443

Contributors 467 Index 473