Education
University of Oxford. McGill University; University of Toronto. University of Paris.
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Charles Blattberg
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Educated at Toronto, McGill, the Sorbonne (Université de Paris I), and Oxford, he has been teaching political philosophy at the Université de Montréal since 2000, except for 2005-2006 and 2012-2013 when he was a Lady Davis Visiting Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has argued that what he calls "patriotic democracy" is superior to "deliberative democracy" because of four main flaws with the latter. He accused deliberative democracy of using a systematic set of procedures for conversation which distorts its practice.
Of being ideologically biased.
That the distinction between conversation and negotiation in deliberative democracy is overstated. And because he believes within deliberative democracy the conception of the political community is impoverished.
Blattberg is also critical of the relationship between the state and civil society, as commonly described within discourse on deliberative democracy. Recent commentary on Blattberg"s approach can be found in Eric Montpetit"s, in "Easing Dissatisfaction with Canadian Federalism? 3 (September 2008), pp.
12–28; Michel Seymour, De la tolérance à la reconnaissance (Montreal: Boréal, 2008), pp.
42 (2010), pp.
Politics
Blattberg has been developing a political philosophy that he calls "new patriotism", which he wants to distinguish from nationalism so as to focus on the common good shared by the members of a political as distinct from national community. The Promise of Disjointed Incrementalism," Canadian Political Science Review 2, northern
