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Perfecting justice in Rawls, Habermas, and Honneth : a deconstructive perspective /
In this exciting new work, Miriam Bankovsky shows how the pursuit of justice requires two orientations. The first is a practical commitment to the possibility of justice, which is the clear starting point for the broadly constructive theories of Rawls, Habermas and Honneth. Indeed, if justice were n...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York, New York :
Continuum,
2012.
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| Colección: | Continuum studies in political philosophy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Perfecting Justice: An Art of the Im/Possible; Two Deconstructive Perspectives: Justice as Betrayal and as Negotiation; The 'Art of the Possible' and its Ideas; The Possibility of the Unimaginable: Justice-To-Come; Revisiting the History of Constructive-Deconstructive Relations; Deconstructive Civic Duties: A Culture Willing to Make the Effort; Part One Justice as Fairness: A Project to Pursue; Chapter 2 Rawls and the Possibility of 'Ideal Theory'; The Immodesty of 'Ideal Theory' in Rawls's Early Work: Unanimous Agreement.
- Kantian Criteria for the Possible: Taming Levinasian ObligationA Further Criterion: Practicability; From a Homogenous Morality Towards an Acknowledgement of Impossibility; Further Qualifications; Moderating the 'Art of the Possible': A Deconstructive Perspective; Chapter 3 Rawls and the 'Undecidability' of the Original Position Procedure; The Priority of Liberty: Initial Immunity to Anti-Democratic Outcomes; The Failures of Rawlsian Justice: On the Duty to Comply with Injustice; Correcting Rawls on 'Excusable General Envy': A Sentiment with Moral Significance; Justice-to-Come in Rawls.
- Part Two Rational Consensus: Open to Contestation in Principle Chapter 4 Habermas and the Possibility of Popular Sovereignty; Overcoming the Failures of Rawlsian Justice; Impartiality: Justification, Not Mere Acceptance; Moral Personhood: Procedural Features, Not Substantive Assumptions; Practicability: Expressions of Popular Sovereignty, Not Overlapping Consensus; The Im/Possible Content of Democratic Will-Formation; Chapter 5 Habermas and the Perfectibility of Deliberative Outcomes; Protections for Autonomy: Initial Immunity to Anti-Democratic Outcomes.
- Beyond an Obsessive Levinasian Analysis: Problems with Asymmetrical ObligationRational Consensus: Empirically Implausible; Rational Consensus: Conceptually Im/Possible; Provisionality and its Challenges: Derrida's Critique of Habermas and Deconstructive Civic Attitudes; Part Three Perfecting Recognition Relations; Chapter 6 Honneth and the Possibility of Mutual Recognition; Honneth's Hegelian Critique of Kantian Autonomy: Human Interdependency; A Hegelian Concept of Practical Freedom; Normative Reconstruction and its Ideas: Impartiality, Moral Personhood and Practicability.
- Correcting Rawlsian JusticeCorrecting Habermasian Justice; Deconstructive Responsibility in Honneth's Diagnosis of Social Pathology; Chapter 7 Honneth and Moral Progress in the Quality of Recognition Relations; Authentic Identity: Initial Immunity to Anti-Democratic Outcomes; Initial Problems with Honneth's Interpretation of Deconstructive Care; Conceptual Tensions in Honneth's Theory; Empirical Difficulties with Honneth's Theory: Residual Harm; Deconstructive Attitudes in the Face of Failure; Chapter 8 Im/Possibility and the Cultivation of Deconstructive Civic Attitudes.