Democracy and the Quest for Justice

Russian and American Perspectives
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-90-420-1099-4
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 148, 154 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 327 g

Reihe: Value Inquiry Book Series / Contemporary Russian Philosophy

This book examines the changes and challenges to democracy particularly in contemporary Russia. In the first section, Russian and American philosophers scrutinize the virtues and vices facing a country changing to a democratic government. The book, secondly, explores the challenges facing a democratic Russia. Lastly, the book considers carefully issues of social justice arising from the relationship between democracy and the current economic climate of globalization.

CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHY (CRP) explores a variety of perspectives in and on philosophy as it is currently being practiced in Russia. Co-sponsored by the Center for Professional and Applied Ethics at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, and by the Russian Philosophical Society, this special series features collaborative works between Russians and Americans, collections of essays by Russians, and monographs by Russians. All volumes are published in English.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Gay, William C.

Alekseeva, Tatiana

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politikberatung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

William GAY: Editorial Foreword
Jack PERRY: Preface
Reginald RAYMER: Introduction Current Trends in Russian and American Political Theory
PART ONE DEMOCRACY: VALUES and VICES
ONE Tatiana ALEKSEEVA: Living in the World of a “Unipolar System”: Alternatives and Trends
TWO Robert MUNDT: Corruption and Democracy
THREE Abdusalam GUSEINOV: Ethics and Democracy: On the Danger of
Moral Demagoguery
FOUR Alan WOOLFOLK: Democracy, Patriotism, and Virtue: Notes Toward a Cultural Theory of Nations and
Nationalism
PART TWO CHALLENGES TO DEMOCRACY IN RUSSIA
FIVE Vyacheslav STIOPIN: Democratic Reforms in Russia: The Specific Social Transformation
SIX Nicholas CASTE: Democracy, Information, and the Russian Experiment
SEVEN Konstantin ZUEV: Reflections on Some Problems in Russia’s Transformation
PART THREE DEMOCRACY AND ECONOMICS
EIGHT Laura DUHAN KAPLAN and Charles KAPLAN: The American Dream: Democracy or
Meritocracy?
NINE Ruben APRESSYAN: Civil Society and Civil Participation
TEN William GAY: Economic Democracy: The Final
Frontier
Bibliography
About the Authors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

TATIANA ALEKSEEVA is Head of the Department of Political Theory at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), which operates under the auspices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Formerly the Head of the Department of Political Philosophy at the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Philosophy in Moscow, she writes on contractarian political philosophy and international relations.
WILLIAM GAY is Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He specializes in war and peace studies (in which he has published extensively), social and political philosophy (particularly Russia), and continental philosophy. He is an Associate Editor of VIBS and the Editor of its Special Series on Contemporary Russian Philosophy.