Identity, Difference: Democratic Negotiations of Political Paradox

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U of Minnesota Press, 2002 - Democracy - 244 pages
 

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The Problem of Evil
1
Freedom and Resentment
16
Global Political Discourse
36
Liberalism and Difference
64
Responsibility for Evil
95
A Letter to Augustine
123
Democracy and Distance
158
The Politics of Territorial Democracy
198
Notes
223
Index
239
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Page xiv - An identity is established in relation to a series of differences that have become socially recognized. These differences are essential to its being. If they did not coexist as differences, it would not exist in its distinctness and solidity. Entrenched in this Indispensable relation is a second set of tendencies.

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