Deliberative Freedom: Deliberative Democracy as Critical Theory

by Christian F. Rostboll

In Deliberative Freedom, Christian F. Rostb ll accepts the common belief that democracy and freedom are intimately related, but he sees this relationship in a new and challenging way. Rostb ll argues that deliberative democracy is normatively committed to multiple dimensions of freedom, and that this, in turn, makes it a distinct model of democracy. He presents a new version of deliberative democracy that rejects the prevailing synthesis of Habermasian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791474593
• ISBN13: 9780791474594
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.0"