Democracy After Liberalism: Pragmatism and Deliberative Politics

This book critically evaluates liberalism, the dominant attempt in the tradition of political philosophy to provide a philosophical foundation for democracy, and argues for a conception of deliberative democracy to meet this need.

Robert Talisse is Assistant Professor of PHilosophy at Vanderbilt University. He has written several books including On Dewey (2000), On Rawls (2001) and On James(2004). He is also the co-editor of the forthcoming American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia (Routledge).