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The Habermas-Rawls Debate (Paperback)
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Jurgen 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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