Democracy without Shortcuts A Participatory Conception of Deliberative Democracy

Cristina Lafont, Harold H. and Virginia Anderson Professor of Philosophy and Chair, Department of Philosophy, Northwestern University

Cristina Lafont is Harold H. and Virginia Anderson Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University, where she is Chair of the philosophy department and Director of the Program in Critical Theory. She is the author of Global Governance and Human Rights (Amsterdam, 2012), Heidegger, Language, and World-disclosure (Cambridge, 2000), The Linguistic Turn in Hermeneutic Philosophy (MIT, 1999), and co-editor of Critical Theory in Critical Times: Transforming the Global Political and Economic Order (Columbia, 2017) and the Habermas Handbook (Columbia, 2017). She received her Ph.D. in 1992 from the University of Frankfurt. In 2011 she held the Spinoza Chair at the University of Amsterdam and in 2012/13 she was Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin.

Introduction: Democracy for Us, Citizens
I - Why Deliberative Democracy?
1. The Democratic Ideal of Self-government
2. Pluralist Conceptions of Democracy
II - Why Participatory Deliberative Democracy?
3. Purely Epistemic Conceptions of Democracy
4. Lottocratic Conceptions of Deliberative Democracy
5. Lottocratic Institutions from a Participatory Perspective
6. A Participatory Conception of Deliberative Democracy: Against Shortcuts
III - A Participatory Conception of Public Reason
7. Can Public Reason Be Inclusive?
8. Citizens in Robes