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- Title
Communication and the Politics of Difference: Reading Iris Young.
- Authors
Simpson, Lorenzo C.
- Abstract
This article presents information on the works of writer Iris Young on the political aspects of communication. In a recent book and in a number of essays, Iris Young has provided perhaps the clearest and most explicit analysis of the idea of communicative understanding from what might rather loosely be called a postmodernist perspective. In her work "Communication and the Other," for example, she is especially eager to explore ways to emancipate communicative ethics and deliberative democracy from what she perceives to be their fetters of cultural bias. She wishes to do so in order to realize more fully the considerable potential these ethical and political projects have for helping to think about conceptions of justice that are sufficiently expansive to accommodate matters of difference. For instance, she challenges the claim, sometimes made by theorists of deliberative democracy, that bracketing political and economic power is sufficient to make speakers equal. Young writes that among the modes of speech that are singled out for invidious treatment by deliberative theorists are greeting, rhetoric and storytelling.
- Subjects
COMMUNICATION &; politics; ESSAYS; YOUNG, Iris; ETHICS; DEMOCRACY; CULTURE; JUSTICE; RHETORIC
- Publication
Constellations: An International Journal of Critical & Democratic Theory, 2000, Vol 7, Issue 3, p430
- ISSN
1351-0487
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-8675.00198