Rawls and Habermas : reason, pluralism, and the claims of political philosophy /

A critical evaluation of Rawlsian and Habermasian paradigms of political philosophy that offers an interpretation and defense of Habermas's theory of law and democracy as a superior alternative to Rawls's political liberalism.

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Hedrick, Todd, 1978-
التنسيق: Licensed eBooks
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2010.
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=325233
جدول المحتويات:
  • Freestanding political philosophy and the descriptivist critique of Rawls
  • The Rawlsian apparatus of justification
  • Rawls between metaphysics and proceduralism
  • Procedure and substance, construction and reconstruction
  • Discourse theory and the constitutional democratic state
  • Proceduralism and functionalism in Habermas's theory of law and democracy
  • Rawls and the critique of constitutional contractarianism
  • Habermasian constitutional theory
  • Conclusion : idealizations and power.