UID:
almafu_9959233699102883
Format:
1 online resource (256 p.)
ISBN:
0-8047-7475-7
Content:
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.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8047-7076-X
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780804774758
