The Inclusion of the Other Studies in Political Theory

by Habermas, Jurgen; Cronin, Ciaran P.; De Greiff, Pablo

• ISBN13: 9780262581868
• ISBN10: 0262581868
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-27
• Publisher: The MIT Press

Summary

Since its appearance in English translation in 1996, Jurgen Habermas's Between Facts and Normshas become the focus of a productive dialogue between German and Anglo-American legal and political theorists. The present volume contains ten essays that provide an overview of Habermas's political thought since the original appearance of Between Facts and Normsin 1992 and extend his model of deliberative democracy in novel ways to issues untreated in the earlier work. Habermas's theory of democracy has at least three features that set it apart from competing positions. First, it combines a concern with questions of normative justification with an empirical analysis of the social conditions necessary for the realization of democratic institutions. Second, at the heart of his model is the assertion of an internal relationship between liberalism and democracy. Finally, Habermas defends a conception of universal human rights that is not only sensitive to cultural differences but also calls for legal and political institutions that facilitate the cultivation of cultural and religious identities within pluralistic societies. These essays demonstrate the extraordinary power of Habermas's theory of democracy through a further engagement with Rawls's political liberalism and through original contributions to current debates over nationalism, multiculturalism, and the viability of supranational political institutions.

Author Biography

Jurgen Habermas is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Frankfurt.

Table of Contents

Editors' Introduction	p. vii
Translator's Note	p. xxxiii
Preface	p. xxxv
How Rational Is the Authority of the Ought?
A Genealogical Analysis of the Cognitive Content of Morality	p. 3
Political Liberalism: A Debate with John Rawls
Reconciliation through the Public Use of Reason	p. 49
"Reasonable" versus "True," or the Morality of Worldviews	p. 75
Is There a Future for the Nation-State?
The European Nation-State: On the Past and Future of Sovereignty and Citizenship	p. 105
On the Relation between the Nation, the Rule of Law, and Democracy	p. 129
Does Europe Need a Constitution? Response to Dieter Grimm	p. 155
Human Rights: Global and Internal
Kant's Idea of Perpetual Peace: At Two Hundred Years' Historical Remove	p. 165
Struggles for Recognition in the Democratic Constitutional State	p. 203
What Is Meant by "Deliberative Politics"?
Three Normative Models of Democracy	p. 239
On the Internal Relation between the Rule of Law and Democracy	p. 253
Notes	p. 265
Index	p. 291
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