Finlayson The Habermas-Rawls Debate

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-231-54901-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 100 Seiten

In the 1990s, Jürgen Habermas and John Rawls had a famous exchange in the Journal of Philosophy. In this book, James Gordon Finlayson examines the Habermas-Rawls debate in context and considers its wider implications.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Finlayson, James Gordon

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Transzendentalphilosophie, Kritizismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
List of 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 Debate
8. Religion Within the Bounds of Public Reason Alone
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

James Gordon Finlayson is reader in philosophy and director of the Centre for Social and Political Thought at the University of Sussex. He is the author of numerous articles on post- Kantian philosophy and critical theory, as well as Habermas: A Very Short Introduction (2005), and the editor of Habermas and Rawls: Disputing the Political (2011).