Sustaining Democracy
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Sustaining Democracy
| Full title | Sustaining Democracy: What We Owe to the Other Side |
|---|---|
| Author | Robert B. Talisse |
| Published | 2021 |
| Pages | 184 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Talisse argues that democracy imposes two duties that pull against each other — fight for what you believe is just, and treat opponents as political equals — and that “belief polarisation” makes like-minded groups more extreme simply by talking among themselves. His remedy is not more cross-partisan dialogue but deliberate time away from politics, in shared activities where political identity is not the organising fact. |
Where I heard about it
- Brendan McCord — on his Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List, March 2026, in the section on Liberalism, Democracy, and Pluralism, following Talisse’s own Overdoing Democracy and beside Haidt’s The Righteous Mind and Inazu’s Confident Pluralism — where the curriculum turns to how people who disagree keep a pluralist society running. The full 211-entry list is on The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List.
Connections
- Democracy — the practice the book is about sustaining.
- Rhetoric — the domain of the book’s central problem, how political argument degrades.
- The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List — the curriculum this came from.
What links here
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