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The Habermas-Rawls Debate / James Gordon Finlayson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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  • 9780231164108
  • 9780231549011
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 193 23
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  • B3258.H324 F5835 2019
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING -- I. THE EARLY DEBATE -- 1. TWO NONRIVAL THEORIES OF JUSTICE -- 2. HABERMAS'S EARLY CRITICISMS OF RAWLS -- II. HABERMAS'S AND RAWLS'S MATURE POLITICAL THEORIES -- 3. HABERMAS'S BETWEEN FACTS AND NORMS -- 4. RAWLS'S POLITICAL LIBERALISM -- III. THE EXCHANGE -- 5. HABERMAS'S "RECONCILIATION THROUGH THE PUBLIC USE OF REASON" -- 6. RAWLS'S "REPLY TO HABERMAS" -- 7. "REASONABLE' VERSUS 'TRUE": HABERMAS'S REPLY TO RAWLS'S "REPLY" -- IV. THE LEGACY OF THE HABERMAS-RAWLS DISPUTE -- 8. RELIGION WITHIN THE BOUNDS OF PUBLIC REASON ALONE -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING -- I. THE EARLY DEBATE -- 1. TWO NONRIVAL THEORIES OF JUSTICE -- 2. HABERMAS'S EARLY CRITICISMS OF RAWLS -- II. HABERMAS'S AND RAWLS'S MATURE POLITICAL THEORIES -- 3. HABERMAS'S BETWEEN FACTS AND NORMS -- 4. RAWLS'S POLITICAL LIBERALISM -- III. THE EXCHANGE -- 5. HABERMAS'S "RECONCILIATION THROUGH THE PUBLIC USE OF REASON" -- 6. RAWLS'S "REPLY TO HABERMAS" -- 7. "REASONABLE' VERSUS 'TRUE": HABERMAS'S REPLY TO RAWLS'S "REPLY" -- IV. THE LEGACY OF THE HABERMAS-RAWLS DISPUTE -- 8. RELIGION WITHIN THE BOUNDS OF PUBLIC REASON ALONE -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

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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.

Issued also in print.

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In English.

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