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Deborah Cook

The Talking Cure in Habermas’s Republic

nlr 12 November–December 2001

To what extent do liberal democracies rest on the will of their citizens? Deborah Cook assesses how far Jürgen Habermas’s attempt to bridge the gap between their nominal pretensions and actual workings provides a convincing account of the way Western societies live now.