Tradition and the Deliberative Turn

<p><b>Reframes the discussion of deliberative democracy in a unique fashion approaching the debate as a historical conversation.</b></p><p>This book changes the narrative regarding democratic deliberation. It does so by bringing to bear insights into the nature of morality and discourse associated with one of the twentieth century's foremost philosophers of history Hans-Georg Gadamer. <i>Tradition and the Deliberative Turn</i> thus reframes the discussion about deliberative democracy with a robust historical sensibility which has largely been missing from this conversation. Gadamer's rehabilitation of tradition shows how the concrete ethical life does not merely occlude but also facilitates moral understanding providing a particular vantage point from which we perceive the world. What other scholars have overlooked is that such a perspective is therefore always limited. Drawing on Gadamer's practical philosophy an underappreciated element in his corpus Ryan R. Holston argues for the need to cultivate these historically-rooted and local relationships and the shared meanings to which they give life.</p>