Rawls Ou Habermas

Author : James Gordon Finlayson,Fabian Freyenhagen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135767396

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Habermas and Rawls by James Gordon Finlayson,Fabian Freyenhagen Pdf

Habermas and Rawls are two heavyweights of social and political philosophy, and they are undoubtedly the two most written about (and widely read) authors in this field. However, there has not been much informed and interesting work on the points of intersection between their projects, partly because their work comes from different traditions—roughly the European tradition of social and political theory and the Anglo-American analytic tradition of political philosophy. In this volume, contributors re-examine the Habermas-Rawls dispute with an eye toward the ways in which the dispute can cast light on current controversies about political philosophy more broadly. Moreover, the volume will cover a number of other salient issues on which Habermas and Rawls have interesting and divergent views, such as the political role of religion and international justice.

Author : Todd Hedrick
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780804774758

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Rawls and Habermas by Todd Hedrick Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive evaluation of the two preeminent post-WWII political philosophers, John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas. Both men question how we can be free and autonomous under coercive law and how we might collectively use our reason to justify exercises of political power. In pluralistic modern democracies, citizens cannot be expected to agree about social norms on the basis of common allegiance to comprehensive metaphysical or religious doctrines concerning persons or society, and both philosophers thus engage fundamental questions about how a normatively binding framework for the public use of reason might be possible and justifiable. Hedrick explores the notion of reasonableness underwriting Rawls's political liberalism and the theory of communicative rationality that sustains Habermas's procedural conception of the democratic constitutional state. His book challenges the Rawlsianism prevalent in the Anglo-American world today while defending Habermas's often poorly understood theory as a superior alternative.

Author : Bjarne Melkevik
Publisher : Presses Université Laval
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Law
ISBN : 2763778372

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Rawls ou Habermas by Bjarne Melkevik Pdf

"Seule la philosophie du droit de Habermas nous semble apte à respecter les enjeux modernes et intersubjectifs, et apte à nous permettre de nous confirmer réciproquement et démocratiquement comme les auteurs de nos normes, droits et institutions. La philosophie de Rawls n'est tout simplement pas appropriée au domaine de la philosophie du droit. Elle ne représente ni plus ni moins qu'une " mise en cage " morale de la possibilité de droit. Ainsi, elle s'érige comme un soi-disant " Vrai-droit moral " ne pouvant que détourner le projet moderne du droit de son sens et porter violence à l'autonomie aussi bien juridique que démocratique des sujets de droit. L'invitation que nous a lancée Habermas d'engager la philosophie du droit sur le chemin d'une conception de la politique délibérative, avec les processus démocratiques à l'arrière plan, nous semble plus prometteuse. Précisément, parce qu'elle respecte et prend en compte le rôle charnière que les sujets de droit jouent dans le projet juridique moderne. Contre les partisans obnubilés par les mirages de tout " Vrai-droit moral ", il y a tout lieu de prendre plus au sérieux le projet juridique moderne et l'autolégislation démocratique."--

Author : James Gordon Finlayson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231549011

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The Habermas-Rawls Debate by James Gordon Finlayson Pdf

Jürgen Habermas and John Rawls are perhaps the two most renowned and influential figures in social and political philosophy of the second half of the twentieth century. In the 1990s, they had a famous exchange in the Journal of Philosophy. Quarreling over the merits of each other’s accounts of the shape and meaning of democracy and legitimacy in a contemporary society, they also revealed how great thinkers working in different traditions read—and misread—one another’s work. In this book, James Gordon Finlayson examines the Habermas-Rawls debate in context and considers its wider implications. He traces their dispute from its inception in their earliest works to the 1995 exchange and its aftermath, as well as its legacy in contemporary debates. Finlayson discusses Rawls’s Political Liberalism and Habermas’s Between Facts and Norms, considering them as the essential background to the dispute and using them to lay out their different conceptions of justice, politics, democratic legitimacy, individual rights, and the normative authority of law. He gives a detailed analysis and assessment of their contributions, assessing the strengths and weaknesses of their different approaches to political theory, conceptions of democracy, and accounts of religion and public reason, and he reflects on the ongoing significance of the debate. The Habermas-Rawls Debate is an authoritative account of the crucial intersection of two major political theorists and an explication of why their dispute continues to matter.

Author : Miriam Bankovsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1010549132

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Perfecting Justice in Rawls, Habermas and Honneth by Miriam Bankovsky Pdf

Author : Maureen Junker-Kenny
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110347326

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Religion and Public Reason by Maureen Junker-Kenny Pdf

This book compares three approaches to public reason and to the public space accorded to religions: the liberal platform of an overlapping consensus proposed by John Rawls, Jürgen Habermas’s discourse ethical reformulation of Kant’s universalism and its realization in the public sphere, and the co-founding role which Paul Ricoeur attributes to the particular traditions that have shaped their cultures and the convictions of citizens. The premises of their positions are analysed under four aspects: (1) the normative framework which determines the specific function of public reason; (2) their anthropologies and theories of action; (3) the dimensions of social life and its concretization in a democratic political framework; (4) the different views of religion that follow from these factors, including their understanding of the status of metaphysical and religious truth claims, and the role of religion as a practice and conviction in a pluralist society. Recent receptions and critiques in English and German are brought into conversation: philosophers and theologians discuss the scope of public reason, and the task of translation from faith traditions, as well as the role they might have in the diversity of world cultures for shaping a shared cosmopolitan horizon.

Author : Miriam Bankovsky
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441195418

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Perfecting Justice in Rawls, Habermas and Honneth by Miriam Bankovsky Pdf

Brings a deconstructive perspective to theories of justice in the early and later work of Rawls, Habermas and Honneth.

Author : Camil Ungureanu,Klaus Günther
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351924580

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Jürgen Habermas, Volumes I and II by Camil Ungureanu,Klaus Günther Pdf

Jürgen Habermas is widely regarded as one of the outstanding intellectuals of our time. This collection focuses on the theory of law which can be distilled from his vast compendium of work. At the same time the collection places this theory in the context of Habermas' overall contribution to the theory of society, political theory and social philosophy. Volume I on 'The Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy' identifies the theoretical foundations. Volume II focuses on the critical debate of Habermas' discourse theory of law and democracy, on the challenges posed by the postnational constellation (Europeanization and processes of globalization) and on particular strands within his work, such as genetic technology and religion. Each volume is prefaced by a comprehensive introduction by the editors.

Author : Simone Chambers
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781501722547

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Reasonable Democracy by Simone Chambers Pdf

In Reasonable Democracy, Simone Chambers describes, explains, and defends a discursive politics inspired by the work of Jürgen Habermas. In addition to comparing Habermas's ideas with other non-Kantian liberal theories in clear and accessible prose, Chambers develops her own views regarding the role of discourse and its importance within liberal democracies.Beginning with a deceptively simple question—"Why is talking better than fighting?"—Chambers explains how the idea of talking provides a rich and compelling view of morality, rationality, and political stability. She considers talking as a way for people to respect each other as moral agents, as a way to reach reasonable and legitimate solutions to disputes, and as a way to reproduce and strengthen shared understandings. In the course of this argument, she defends modern universalist ethics, communicative rationality, and what she calls a "discursive political culture," a concept that locates the political power of discourse and deliberation not so much in institutions of democratic decision-making as in the type of conversations that go on around these institutions. While discourse and deliberation cannot replace voting, bargaining, or compromise, Chambers argues, it is important to maintain a background moral conversation in which to anchor other activities.As an extended case study, Chambers examines the conversation about language rights that has been taking place for more than twenty years in Quebec. A culture of dialogue, she shows, has proved a positive and powerful force in resolving some of the disagreements between the two linguistic communities there.

Author : Hugh Baxter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000151954

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Habermas and Law by Hugh Baxter Pdf

Habermas and Law makes accessible the most important essays in English that deal with the application to law of the work of major philosophers for whom law was not a main concern. It encompasses not only what these philosophers had to say about law but also brings together essays which consider those aspects of the work of major philosophers which bear on our interpretation and assessment of current law and legal theory. The essays are based on scholarly study of particular philosophers and deal with both the nature and role of law and the application of philosophy to specific areas of law.

Author : Walther Ziegler
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783756872053

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Great Thinkers in 60 Minutes - Volume 5 by Walther Ziegler Pdf

"Great Thinkers in 60 Minutes Volume 5" comprises the five books "Adorno in 60 Minutes", "Habermas in 60 Minutes", "Foucault in 60 Minutes", "Rawls in 60 Minutes", and "Popper in 60 Minutes". Each short study sums up the key idea at the heart of each respective thinker and asks the question: "Of what use is this key idea to us today?" But above all the philosophers get to speak for themselves. Their most important statements are prominently presented, as direct quotations, in speech balloons with appropriate graphics, with exact indication of the source of each quote in the author's works. This light-hearted but nonetheless scholarly precise rendering of the ideas of each thinker makes it easy for the reader to acquaint him- or herself with the great questions of our lives. Because every philosopher who has achieved global fame has posed the "question of meaning": what is it that holds, at the most essential level, the world together? For Adorno it is the dialectical development of civilization from the Stone Age up to capitalism along with the alienation of Man from Nature that goes with it. Habermas, by contrast, sees in this historical process of development the chance to gradually improve society through the emancipatory power of language in communicative action. Foucault remains sceptical here and reveals to us the rigid structures in which we, as modern individuals, are trapped. Rawls develops a complex and compelling procedure for the creation of an ideally just state of affairs. Popper, finally, establishes a quite new theory of science whereby every scientific truth has only a provisional character so that it must eventually be relieved and replaced by better truths. In other words, the meaning of the world and thus of our own lives remains, among philosophers, a topic of great controversy. One thing, though, is sure: each of these five thinkers struck, from his own perspective, one brilliant spark out of that complex crystal that is the truth.

Author : Kenneth Baynes
Publisher : Suny Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0791408671

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The Normative Grounds of Social Criticism by Kenneth Baynes Pdf

This book is a comparative study of Kant, Rawls, and Habermas and a critical survey of recent theories of justice. It defends the thesis that the normative ground or basis of social criticism is found in a concept of the person as a free and equal moral being.

Author : Stephen K. White
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1989-08-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521389593

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The Recent Work of Jürgen Habermas by Stephen K. White Pdf

Jürgen Habermas is one of the foremost philosophers and social theorists in the world today. But the complexity and breadth of his thought make him often difficult to understand. In this book, Stephen White offers a clear, accessible, and reliable introduction to Habermas's work, particularly that which he has written since the publication of Knowledge and human interest (produced in English in 1971). During this period, new themes and directions have emerged in Habermas's thought, which culminated in The Theory of Communicative Action, a massive work that has not hitherto been the subject of extended commentary and analysis. This book is the first to provide a full-length study of Habermas's mature thought. Locating the latter in the context of contemporary debates, White explains Habermas's ideas about action, rationality, communicative ethics, contemporary capitalism, and new social movements, which characterize his later work. He also examines Habermas's interpretation of modernity, showing that although, like his forerunners in the Frankfurt School, Habermas maintains a critical stance towards modernity's instrumentalization of reason, he nonetheless offers a sophisticated defense of the universal significance of other aspects of modern consciousness that are too often forgotten by many recent radical critics of modernity. Throughout, White presents Habermas's work in such a way as to emphasize its coherence, and to demonstrate how it constitutes the beginnings of a distinctive new research program in the social sciences. As a well-researched and lucid account of Habermas's thought, this book will appeal to readers wanting an introduction to the complexity of his ideas, as well as to those already conversant with them. It will also interest social and political theorists concerned with the general theoretical issues that it covers.

Author : Jon Clark,Marco Diani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317827146

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Alain Touraine by Jon Clark,Marco Diani Pdf

First published in 2004. The seventeen essays in this volume discuss the work of Alain Touraine and consider his contribution to the social sciences. The text includes his most recent thinkings on the market and communities.

Author : Aakash Singh Rathore
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315284200

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Indian Political Theory by Aakash Singh Rathore Pdf

At present, a nativist turn in Indian political theory can be observed. There is a general assumption that the indigenous thought to which researchers are supposed to be (re)turning may somehow be immediately visible by ignoring the colonization of the mind and polity. In such a conception of svaraj (which can be translated as ‘authentic autonomy’), the tradition to be returned to would be that of the indigenous elites. In this book, this concept of svaraj is defined as a thick conception, which links it with exclusivist notions of spirituality, profound anti-modernity, exceptionalistic moralism, essentialistic nationalism and purism. However, post-independence India has borne witness to an alternative trajectory: a thin svaraj. The author puts forward a workable contemporary ideal of thin svaraj, i.e. political, and free of metaphysical commitment. The model proposed is inspired by B.R. Ambedkar's thoughts, as opposed to the thick conception found in the works of M.K. Gandhi, KC Bhattacharya and Ramachandra Gandhi. The author argues that political theorists of Indian politics continue to work with categories and concepts alien to the lived social and political experiences of India's common man, or everyday people. Consequently, he emphasises the need to decolonize Indian political theory, and rescue it from the grip of western theories, and fascination with western modes of historical analysis. The necessity to avoid both universalism and relativism and more importantly address the political predicaments of ‘the people’ is the key objective of the book, and a push for a reorientation of Indian political theory. An interesting new interpretation of a contemporary ideal of svaraj, this analysis takes into account influences from other cultures and sources as well as eschews thick conceptions that stifle imaginations and imaginaries. This book will be of interest to academics in the fields of philosophy, political science, sociology, literature and cultural studies in general and contemporary political theory, South Asian and Indian politics and political theory in particular.