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
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.
Ten essays provide an overview of Habermas's political thought and extend his model of deliberative democracy to issues untreated in earlier work.
Editors' Introduction | ||
Translator's Note | ||
Preface | ||
I | How Rational Is the Authority of the Ought? | |
1 | A Genealogical Analysis of the Cognitive Content of Morality | 3 |
II | Political Liberalism: A Debate with John Rawls | |
2 | Reconciliation through the Public Use of Reason | 49 |
3 | "Reasonable" versus "True," or the Morality of Worldviews | 75 |
III | Is There a Future for the Nation-State? | |
4 | The European Nation-State: On the Past and Future of Sovereignty and Citizenship | 105 |
5 | On the Relation between the Nation, the Rule of Law, and Democracy | 129 |
6 | Does Europe Need a Constitution? Response to Dieter Grimm | 155 |
IV | Human Rights: Global and Internal | |
7 | Kant's Idea of Perpetual Peace: At Two Hundred Years' Historical Remove | 165 |
8 | Struggles for Recognition in the Democratic Constitutional State | 203 |
V | What Is Meant by "Deliberative Politics"? | |
9 | Three Normative Models of Democracy | 239 |
10 | On the Internal Relation between the Rule of Law and Democracy | 253 |
Notes | 265 | |
Index | 291 |