Habermas and Rawls

Disputing the Political

James Gordon Finlayson, Fabian Freyenhagen, James Gordon Finlayson, Fabian Freyenhagen

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9780415876865
• eBook ISBN:
  9781135767396
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosophy History & Theory

Habermas and Rawls are two heavyweights of social and political philosophy, and they are undoubtedly the two most written about (and widely read) authors in this field. However, there has not been much informed and interesting work on the points of intersection between their projects, partly because their work comes from different traditions—roughly the European tradition of social and political theory and the Anglo-American analytic tradition of political philosophy. In this volume, contributors re-examine the Habermas-Rawls dispute with an eye toward the ways in which the dispute can cast light on current controversies about political philosophy more broadly. Moreover, the volume will cover a number of other salient issues on which Habermas and Rawls have interesting and divergent views, such as the political role of religion and international justice.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Abbreviations
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction The Habermas-Rawls Dispute Analysis and Reevaluation
• PART I The Habermas-Rawls Dispute
• 1 Reconciliation through the Public Use of Reason Remarks on John Rawls's Political Liberalism
• 2 Political Liberalism Reply to Habermas
• 3 “Reasonable” versus “True,” or the Morality of Worldviews
• PART II Disputing the Political
• 4 Justice Transcendental not Metaphysical
• 5 The Justice of Justification
• 6 The Justification of Justice Rawls and Habermas in Dialogue
• 7 Procedure in Substance and Substance in Procedure Reframing the Rawls–Habermas Debate
• 8 Habermas, Rawls and Moral Impartiality
• 9 Rawls and Habermas on the Place of Religion in the Political Domain
• 10 Two Models of Human Rights Extending the Rawls–Habermas Debate
• 11 Beyond Overlapping Consensus Rawls and Habermas on the Limits of Cosmopolitanism
• PART III Afterword
• 12 Reply to My Critics
• Contributors
• Index