Plurality, pluralism and democracy

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Plurality, pluralism and democracy Wed 12-14 S20A
ls 334d, Thur 12-14 U40 lr14 Kristian Klockars,
PhD, Docent, kristian.klockars_at_helsinki.fi ?
Final exam Wed 27.2 or essay (5-10 pages), ready
Friday 29.2 ? Suggestions for themes of essay
1. Agonistic pluralism 2. Democracy and
pluralism 3. Pluralism and the cosmopolitical
order
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Preliminary program 16-17.1 Introduction.
Liberal and republican pluralism. Introduction to
politics of the agon. 23.1 Politics of the
agon 24.1 Texts John Kekes Some Political
Implications of Pluralism The Conflict with
Liberalism in The Morality of Pluralism
(1993) Chantal Mouffe Politics and the Limits
of Liberalism in Return of the Political
(1993) 30-31.1 Politics of the agon continues
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6.2 Deliberative democracy 7.2 TextsChantal
Mouffe For an Agonistic Model of Democracy in
The Democratic Paradox (2000) Jacques Rancière
Introducing Disagreement (2004) with Eleven
Theses on Politics and Alain Badiou Rancière
and Apoliticsin Metapolitics (1998,
2005) 13-14.2 Democracy moral ideal, system of
rule and the cosmopolitan question 20.2 Text(s)
Seyla Benhabib Twilight of Sovereignty or the
Emergence of Cosmopolitan Norms? Rethinking
Citizenship in Volatile Times (2007) 21.2 Final
lecture 27.2 Exam?