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List of contents
Contents: Volume I: Introduction; Part I Foundations: Habermas's Reconstructive Approach: Theoretical Premises: Enlightenment and the idea of public reason, Thomas McCarthy; Facts, norms, and normative facts: a reply to Habermas, Robert Brandom; Universality and Truth, and Response to Jürgen Habermas, Richard Rorty. Part II The Discourse Theory: Discourse and Argumentation: Grasping the force of the better argument: McMahon versus discourse ethics, William Rehg. Moral and Legal Discourse: The communicative paradigm in moral theory, Alessandro Ferrara; Legitimacy without morality. Habermas and Maus on the relationship between law and morality, Peter Niesen. Discourse and Value Pluralism: Plurality of the good? The problem of affirmative tolerance in a multicultural society from an ethical point of view, Karl-Otto Apel; Values and norms, Hilary Putnam; Comment on Jürgen Habermas', From Kant to Hegel and Back Again, Charles Taylor. Part III Habermas's Theory of Democracy: Historical Context and the Legacy of German Legal-Political Thought: Habermas' reconstruction of West German post-war law and the Sozialstaat controversy, John P. McCormick; On the origins of constitutional patriotism, Jan-Werner Müller. Public Sphere: Models of public space: Hannah Arendt, the liberal tradition and Jürgen Habermas, Seyla Benhabib. Civil Society and Civil Disobedience: Activist challenges to deliberative democracy, Iris Marion Young. Deliberative Democracy: The rule of reasons. Three models of deliberative democracy, Rainer Forst; Reflections on Habermas on democracy, Joshua Cohen. Part IV The Legal System: The System of Rights: Democracy, human rights, and the problem of a worldwide civil society, Albrecht Wellmer; Individual freedom and social equality: Habermas's democratic revolution in the social contractarian justification of law, David Ingram. The Procedural Paradigm: Basic rights and democracy in Jürgen Habermas's procedural paradigm of law, Robert Alexy; Procedural justi
About the author
Camil Ungureanu, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain, Klaus Günther, University of Frankfurt, Germany and Christian Joerges, University of Bremen, Germany
Summary
Jürgen Habermas is widely regarded as one of the outstanding intellectuals of our time. This two-volume collection focuses on the theory of law which can be distilled from his vast compendium of work.
