Democratic authority
Subtitle: a philosophical framework
By: David M. Estlund
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780691124179
Subjects: Democracy; Democracy -- Philosophy; Authority
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-302) and index
Table of contents: title: Democratic authority; title: Truth and despotism; title: An acceptability requirement; title: The limits of fair procedure; title: The flight from substance; title: Epistemic proceduralism; title: Authority and normative consent; title: Original authority and the democracy/jury analogy; title: How would democracy know?; title: The real speech situation; title: Why not an epistocracy of the educated?; title: The irrelevance of the jury theorem; title: Rejecting the democracy/contractualism analogy; title: Utopophobia : concession and aspiration in democratic theory