{"product_id":"the-habermas-rawls-debate-9780231164115","title":"The Habermas-Rawls Debate","description":"\u003cp\u003eJürgen Habermas and John Rawls are perhaps the two most renowned and influential figures in social and political philosophy of the second half of the twentieth century. In the 1990s, they had a famous exchange in the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e. Quarreling over the merits of each other's accounts of the shape and meaning of democracy and legitimacy in a contemporary society, they also revealed how great thinkers working in different traditions read--and misread--one another's work. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this book, James Gordon Finlayson examines the Habermas-Rawls debate in context and considers its wider implications. He traces their dispute from its inception in their earliest works to the 1995 exchange and its aftermath, as well as its legacy in contemporary debates. Finlayson discusses Rawls's \u003ci\u003ePolitical Liberalism\u003c\/i\u003e and Habermas's \u003ci\u003eBetween Facts and Norms\u003c\/i\u003e, considering them as the essential background to the dispute and using them to lay out their different conceptions of justice, politics, democratic legitimacy, individual rights, and the normative authority of law. He gives a detailed analysis and assessment of their contributions, assessing the strengths and weaknesses of their different approaches to political theory, conceptions of democracy, and accounts of religion and public reason, and he reflects on the ongoing significance of the debate. \u003ci\u003eThe Habermas-Rawls Debate\u003c\/i\u003e is an authoritative account of the crucial intersection of two major political theorists and an explication of why their dispute continues to matter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames Gordon Finlayson is reader in philosophy and director of the Centre for Social and Political Thought at the University of Sussex. He is the author of numerous articles on post-Kantian philosophy and critical theory, as well as \u003ci\u003eHabermas: A Very Short Introduction\u003c\/i\u003e (2005), and the editor of \u003ci\u003eHabermas and Rawls: Disputing the Political\u003c\/i\u003e (2011).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50410005299474,"sku":"9780231164115","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0d75ebef-e524-4060-ae27-6c72564695dd.jpg?v=1729298219","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-habermas-rawls-debate-9780231164115","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}