Rawls and Habermas: Reason, Pluralism, and the Claims of Political Philosophy Book

Contents

Abbreviations....................ix
Introduction....................1
1. Freestanding Political Philosophy and the Descriptivist Critique of Rawls....................17
2. The Rawlsian Apparatus of Justification....................34
3. Rawls between Metaphysics and Proceduralism....................61
4. Procedure and Substance, Construction and Reconstruction....................81
5. Discourse Theory and the Constitutional Democratic State....................103
6. Proceduralism and Functionalism in Habermas's Theory of law and Democracy....................125
7. Rawls and the Critique of Constitutional Contractarianism....................149
8. Habermasian Constitutional Theory....................166
9. Conclusion: Idealizations and Power....................184
Notes....................197
Works Cited....................225
Index....................237