ESQUITH, STEPHEN L. [ED.]. — Political Dialogue: Theories and Practices.

Amsterdam-Atlanta, Rodopi. 1996. Original publisher's sewn blue paperback, pictorial frontcover, 8vo: 356pp., [30]pp. ads, 14 contributions, footnotes/references. Contents: 1. Stephen L. Esquith: Political Dialogue and Political Virtue. Part 1. The Modern Classics. 2. Alfonso J. Damico: Reason's Reach: Liberal Tolerance and Political Discourse. 3. Tibor R. Machan: Individualism and Political Dialogue. 4. Rebecca Kukla: The Coupling of Human Souls: Rousseau and the Problem of Gender Relations. 5. Donald F. Koch: Dialogue: An Essay in the Instrumentalist Tradition. Part 2. Toward a Democratic Synthesis. 6. Evan Simpson: Forms of Political Thinking and the Persistence of Practical Philosophy. 7. James B. Sauer: Discourse, Consensus, and Value: Conversations about the Intelligible Relation between the Private and the Public Spheres. 8. Mark Kingwell: Phronesis and Political Dialogue. 9. Richard T. Peterson: Democracy and Intellectual Mediation - After Liberalism and Socialism. Part 3. Dialogue in Practice. 10. Susan von Rohr Scaff & Lawrence A. Scaff: Political Dialogue in the New Germany: The Burdens of Culture and an Asymmetrical Past. 11. James H. Read: Participation, Power, and Democracy. 12. Stephen Earl Bennett & Bonnie Fisher & David Resnick: Speaking of Politics in the United States: Who Talks to Whom, Why, and Why Not. 13. John Forester: Beyond Dialogue to Transformative Learning: How Deliberative Rituals Encourage Political Judgment in Community Planning Processes. 14. Aleksandar Fati: Retribution in Democracy. Very fine copy - as new. Volume 46: Poznan Studies of the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities.