Discourse and Democracy: Essays on Habermas's Between Facts and NormsRene von Schomberg, Kenneth Baynes Discourse and Democracy offers a variety of perspectives by an international group of scholars on Jürgen Habermas's Between Facts and Norms. The collection presents not just a summary of Habermas's own views, but locates him with respect to modern and contemporary moral, political, and legal theory. The result is a volume useful to those first approaching Habermas's thought as well as those already familiar with its general outlines. |
Contents
Deliberative Democracy and the Limits of Liberalism | 15 |
The Formal and Informal Bases | 31 |
Democratic Theory | 61 |
On Habermass Reconstruction | 89 |
Habermas Hegel and the Concept of Law | 129 |
Rawls and Habermas | 153 |
Law Solidarity and the Tasks of Philosophy | 165 |
Rational Politics? An Exploration of the Fruitfulness | 185 |
The Disappearance of Discourse Ethics in Habermass | 201 |
The Ways in which Society | 219 |
A Conversation about Questions of Political Theory | 241 |
Contributors | 259 |
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