7 Public Reason and Public Institutions

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Abbreviations xv
5. Introduction: The Task before Us 1
6. I. TOWARD A PRAGMATIC THEORY OF POLITICAL JUSTIFICATION
7. 1 The Tyranny of Minimalism 19
8. 2 Prospectivism and “The Will to Believe” 46
9. 3 Narrative and Moral Reasoning 72
10. II PRAGMATISM AND DEMOCRACY
11. 4 Against a Second Pragmatic Acquiescence 95
12. 5 Against Deweyan Democracy 121
13. III POLI TICAL LIBERALISM
14. 6 Political Liberalism and the Limits of the Political 151
15. 7 Public Reason and Public Institutions 181
16. 8 The Fact of Reasonable Pluralism 208
17. Conclusion: Liberalism after Minimalism 235
18. Index 243