Discourse and Democracy: Essays on Habermas's Between Facts and Norms

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Rene von Schomberg, Kenneth Baynes
State University of New York Press, Oct 10, 2002 - Political Science - 277 pages
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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René von Schomberg is a Research Fellow at the European Commission. He is the editor of Science, Politics, and Morality: Scientific Uncertainty and Decision Making and the coeditor, with Peter Wheale and Peter Glasner, of The Social Management of Genetic Engineering. Kenneth Baynes is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is the author of The Normative Grounds of Social Criticism: Kant, Rawls, and Habermas, also published by SUNY Press, and the coeditor, with James Bohman and Thomas McCarthy, of After Philosophy: End or Transformation?

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