Democratic Culture by Akeel Bilgrami
A collection of essays by distinguished scholars, this book delineates a substantial conception of democracy, the great promise as well as the pitfalls of a democratic mentality and culture. These essays go beyond the institutional and formal descriptions of democracy to its underlying cultural context expressed both historically and analytically, descriptively and normatively.
Akeel Bilgrami is at present Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Heyman Centre for the Humanities at Columbia University. He has written extensively on philosophy of mind and language as well as on political and moral psychology. He is the author of Belief and Meaning (1992), Self-Knowledge and Resentment (2006), Politics and the Moral Psychology of Identity (forthcoming), What Is a Muslim? (forthcoming), and Gandhi’s Integrity (forthcoming).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780415589918 |
| ISBN 10 | 0415589916 |
| Title | Democratic Culture |
| Author | Akeel Bilgrami |
| Series | Critical Interventions In Theory And Praxis |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Routledge India |
| Year published | 2011-04-26 |
| Number of pages | 246 |
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