Reasonable Democracy

In Reasonable Democracy, Simone Chambers describes, explains, and defends a discursive politics inspired by the work of Jürgen Habermas. In addition to comparing Habermas's ideas with other non-Kantian liberal theories in clear and accessible prose...

Simone Chambers is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto.

An extremely learned, carefully argued defense of Habermas's theory of communicative rationality as a basis for conceptualizing deliberative democracy.

Stephen K. White, Virginia Tech:

Simone Chambers does a marvelous job of showing how Habermas's conception of communicative rationality and ethics provides the best philosophical perspective from which to make sense of the idea of deliberative democracy.