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Rawls and Habermas : Reason, Pluralism, and the Claims of Political Philosophy /

This book offers a comprehensive evaluation of the two preeminent post-WWII political philosophers, John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas. Both men question how we can be free and autonomous under coercive law and how we might collectively use our reason to justify exercises of political power. In pluralis...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hedrick, Todd (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Freestanding Political Philosophy and the Descriptivist Critique of Rawls
  • 2. The Rawlsian Apparatus of Justification
  • 3. Rawls between Metaphysics and Proceduralism
  • 4. Procedure and Substance, Construction and Reconstruction
  • 5. Discourse Theory and the Constitutional Democratic State
  • 6. Proceduralism and Functionalism in Habermas's Theory of Law and Democracy
  • 7. Rawls and the Critique of Constitutional Contractarianism
  • 8. Habermasian Constitutional Theory
  • 9. Conclusion: Idealizations and Power
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index