The right to justification
Subtitle: elements of a constructivist theory of justice
By: Rainer Forst ; translated by Jeffrey Flynn
Contributors: Flynn, Jeffrey (Jeffrey Regan)
Series: New directions in critical theory
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780231147088; 9780231519588
Subjects: Constructivism (Philosophy); Justification (Ethics); Justice (Philosophy)
Work titles: Recht auf Rechtfertigung
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the foundation of justice; title: Practical reason and justifying reasons: on the foundation of morality; title: Moral autonomy and the autonomy of morality: toward a theory of normativity after Kant; title: Ethics and morality; title: The justification of justice: Rawls's political liberalism and Habermas's discourse theory in dialogue; title: Political liberty: integrating five conceptions of autonomy; title: A critical theory of multicultural toleration; title: The rule of reasons: three models of deliberative democracy; title: Social justice, justification, and power; title: The basic right to justification: toward a constructivist conception of human rights; title: Constructions of transnational justice: comparing John Rawls's the law of peoples and Otfried Höffe's democracy in an age of globalisation; title: Justice, morality, and power in the global context; title: Toward a critical theory of transnational justice.