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.
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
2010.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=325233 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.