La existencia de grupos identitarios afecta la vida en democracia. La autora plantea una distinción entre las demandas de estos grupos que contribuyen a una mayor justicia en la sociedad y aquellas que la impiden.
En una democracia, uno de los asuntos más importantes que deben dilucidar los ciudadanos es el de la educación, un ideal a la vez político y cívico. Porque cuando se educa a un niño al mismo tiempo se le gobierna y, a...
The most widely debated conception of democracy in recent years is deliberative democracy--the idea that citizens or their representatives owe each other mutually acceptable reasons for the laws they enact. Two prominent voices in the ongoing discussion...
Written by one of Americaâs leading political thinkers, this is a book about the good, the bad, and the ugly of identity politics.Amy Gutmann rises above the raging polemics that often characterize discussions of identity groups and offe...
Who should have the authority to shape the education of citizens in a democracy? This is the central question posed by Amy Gutmann in the first book-length study of the democratic theory of education. The author tackles a wide range of issues, from the...
In America today, the problem of achieving racial justice--whether through "color-blind" policies or through affirmative action--provokes more noisy name-calling than fruitful deliberation. In Color Conscious , K. Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutmann,...