This is Habermas’s long awaited work on law, democracy and the modern constitutional state in which he develops his own account of the nature of law and democracy.
Tabella dei contenuti
Translator’s Introduction.
Preface.
1. Law as a Category of Social Mediation between Facts and
Norms.
2. The Sociology of Law versus the Philosophy of Justice.
3. A Reconstructive Approach to Law I: The System of Rights.
4. A Reconstructive Approach to Law II: The Principles of the
Constitutional State. 5. The Indeterminacy of Law and the
Rationality of Adjudication.
6. Judiciary and Legislature: On the Role and Legitimacy of
Constitutional Adjudication.
7. Deliberative Politics: A Procedural Concept of Democracy.
8. Civil Society and the Political Public Sphere.
9. Paradigms of Law. Postscript (1994).
Appendices.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.
Circa l’autore
Jürgen Habermas is a German philosopher and sociologist in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. He is perhaps best known for his theories on communicative rationality and the public sphere. In 2014, Prospect readers chose Habermas as one of their favourites among the ‘world’s leading thinkers’.
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