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The Inclusion of the Other: Studies in Political Theory » (Reprint)

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Authors: Jurgen Habermas, Ciaran P. Cronin (Editor), Pablo De Greiff
ISBN-13: 9780262581868, ISBN-10: 0262581868
Format: Paperback
Publisher: MIT Press
Date Published: January 2000
Edition: Reprint

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Author Biography: Jurgen Habermas

Jürgen Habermas is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt and Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. He was recently awarded the 2004 Kyoto Prize for Arts and Philosophy by the Inamori Foundation. The Kyoto Prize is an international award to honor those who have contributed significantly to the scientific, cultural, and spiritual betterment of mankind.

Ciaran Cronin is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and of German at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Pablo De Greiff is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo and Research Director of the International Center for Transitional Justice.

Book Synopsis

Ten essays provide an overview of Habermas's political thought and extend his model of deliberative democracy to issues untreated in earlier work.

Table of Contents

Editors' Introduction
Translator's Note
Preface
IHow Rational Is the Authority of the Ought?
1A Genealogical Analysis of the Cognitive Content of Morality3
IIPolitical Liberalism: A Debate with John Rawls
2Reconciliation through the Public Use of Reason49
3"Reasonable" versus "True," or the Morality of Worldviews75
IIIIs There a Future for the Nation-State?
4The European Nation-State: On the Past and Future of Sovereignty and Citizenship105
5On the Relation between the Nation, the Rule of Law, and Democracy129
6Does Europe Need a Constitution? Response to Dieter Grimm155
IVHuman Rights: Global and Internal
7Kant's Idea of Perpetual Peace: At Two Hundred Years' Historical Remove165
8Struggles for Recognition in the Democratic Constitutional State203
VWhat Is Meant by "Deliberative Politics"?
9Three Normative Models of Democracy239
10On the Internal Relation between the Rule of Law and Democracy253
Notes265
Index291

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