Rawls and Habermas
Subtitle: reason, pluralism, and the claims of political philosophy
By: Todd Hedrick.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780804770767; 9780804770774
Subjects: Rawls, John, -- 1921-2002; Habermas, Jürgen; Political science -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Freestanding political philosophy and the descriptivist critique of Rawls; title: The Rawlsian apparatus of justification; title: Rawls between metaphysics and proceduralism; title: Procedure and substance, construction and reconstruction; title: Discourse theory and the constitutional democratic state; title: Proceduralism and functionalism in Habermas's theory of law and democracy; title: Rawls and the critique of constitutional contractarianism; title: Habermasian constitutional theory; title: Conclusion : idealizations and power.