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OverviewExamines issues in legal and democratic theory found in the work of Jurgen Habermas. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Rene von Schomberg , Kenneth BaynesPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.390kg ISBN: 9780791454985ISBN 10: 0791454983 Pages: 277 Publication Date: 10 October 2002 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction I. Initial Assessments of Between Facts and Norms 1. Deliberative Democracy and the Limits of Liberalism Kenneth Baynes 2. Discourse and Democracy: The Formal and Informal Bases of Legitimacy in Between Facts and Norms William Rehg and James Bohman 3. Between Radicalism and Resignation: Democratic Theory in Habermas's Between Facts and Norms William E. Scheuerman II. Historical and Comparative Perspectives 4. Liberties and Popular Sovereignty: On Habermas's Reconstruction of the System of Rights Ingeborg Maus 5. Habermas, Hegel, and the Concept of Law Andrew Buchwalter 6. Rawls and Habermas Hauke Brunkhorst III. Further Assessments and Wider Implications 7. Law, Solidarity, and the Tasks of Philosophy Peter Dews 8. Rational Politics? An Exploration of the Fruitfulness of the Discursive Concept of Democracy Geert Munnichs 9. The Disappearance of Discourse Ethics in Habermas's Between Facts and Norms Matthias Kettner 10. The Erosion of Our Value Spheres: The Ways in which Society Copes with Scientific, Moral, and Ethical Uncertainty Rene von Schomberg IV. Interview 11. A Conversation about Questions of Political Theory Jurgen Habermas Contributors IndexReviewsThese essays enter deeply into Habermas's recent work, examine its demanding range of issues comprehensively, largely root his recent work in the theory of communicative action developed in the early years of the 1980s, and consistently engage Habermas at the highest level. In addition, the essays clarify many features of Habermas's work during the past twenty years that still remain obscure to even his most conscientious readers. - Morton Schoolman, author of Reason and Horror: Critical Theory, Democracy, and Aesthetic Individuality A very helpful guide in negotiating the intricacies of Habermasian political philosophy. - Simone Chambers, author of Reasonable Democracy: Jurgen Habermas and the Politics of Discourse """These essays enter deeply into Habermas's recent work, examine its demanding range of issues comprehensively, largely root his recent work in the theory of communicative action developed in the early years of the 1980s, and consistently engage Habermas at the highest level. In addition, the essays clarify many features of Habermas's work during the past twenty years that still remain obscure to even his most conscientious readers."" - Morton Schoolman, author of Reason and Horror: Critical Theory, Democracy, and Aesthetic Individuality ""A very helpful guide in negotiating the intricacies of Habermasian political philosophy."" - Simone Chambers, author of Reasonable Democracy: Jurgen Habermas and the Politics of Discourse" Author InformationRene von Schomberg is a Research Fellow at the European Commission. He is the editor of Science, Politics, and Morality: Scientific Uncertainty and Decision Making and the coeditor, with Peter Wheale and Peter Glasner, of The Social Management of Genetic Engineering. . Kenneth Baynes is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is the author of The Normative Grounds of Social Criticism: Kant, Rawls, and Habermas, also published by SUNY Press, and the coeditor, with James Bohman and Thomas McCarthy, of After Philosophy: End or Transformation? Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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