Amy Gutmann, President of the University of Pennsylvania, on Democracy
Amy Gutmann, President of the University of Pennsylvania, Discussing and Signing Why Deliberative Democracy and Identity in Democracy
Contact: Christine Hibbard at 215 898 7595 or chibbard@pobox.upenn.edu
For Immediate Release
Why Deliberative Democracy? Thursday, September 23 at 7:00 pm
(Why Deliberative Democracy? contributes to our understanding of how democratic citizens and their representatives can make justifiable decisions for their society in the face of the fundamental disagreements that are inevitable in diverse societies. Gutmann and her co-author Dennis Thompson provide a balanced and fair-minded approach that will benefit anyone intent on giving reason and reciprocity a more prominent place in politics than power and special interests.
In Identity in Democracy Gutmann shows us that identity-group politics is not aberrant but inescapable in democracies because identity groups represent who people are, not only what they want--and who people are shapes what they demand from democratic politics. Rather than trying to abolish identity politics, Gutmann calls upon us to distinguish between those demands of identity groups that aid and those that impede justice.
Amy Gutmann Amy Gutmann is President of the University of Pennsylvania. Amy Gutmann comes to the University of Pennsylvania from Princeton University, where she served as Provost and was also the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values. She is President of the American Society of Political and Legal Philosophy, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the W. E. B. Du Bois Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science and a Fellow of the National Academy of Education. Her many books include Democratic Education (Princeton); Why Deliberative Democracy? (forthcoming, Princeton) and Democracy and Disagreement (Harvard), both with Dennis Thompson; and Color Conscious (Princeton, with K. Anthony Appiah).
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Release Date: Thursday, September 23rd 2004
