Perfecting Justice in Rawls, Habermas and Honneth
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Perfecting Justice in Rawls, Habermas and Honneth

A Deconstructive Perspective

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Perfecting Justice in Rawls, Habermas and Honneth

A Deconstructive Perspective

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In this exciting new work, Miriam Bankovsky shows how the pursuit of justice requires two orientations. The first is a practical commitment to the possibility of justice, which is the clear starting point for the broadly constructive theories of Rawls, Habermas and Honneth. Indeed, if justice were not possible, it would be difficult to see why it is worthwhile for human beings to live on this earth. However, a second orientation qualifies the first. It can be expressed as a deconstructive attentiveness to the impossibility of determining justice's content. This impossibility results from the tension between the appeal for individual consideration and the appeal for impartiality, demands that Derrida believes our historical concept of justice includes. Framed by these two orientations, this ambitious book explores the promise and shortcomings of the constructive theories. Attentive to concrete experiences of injustice that these thinkers tend to overlook, Bankovsky provocatively challenges Rawls' account of civil disobedience, Habermas' defence of rational consensus, and Honneth's ideal of mutual recognition, providing new insights into deconstruction's relevance for contemporary theories of justice.

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Publisher
Continuum
Year
2012
ISBN
9781441126962
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Political Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Chapter 1 Perfecting Justice: An Art of the Im/Possible
  6. Part One Justice as Fairness: A Project to Pursue
  7. Chapter 2 Rawls and the Possibility of ‘Ideal Theory’
  8. Chapter 3 Rawls and the ‘Undecidability’ of the Original Position Procedure
  9. Part Two Rational Consensus: Open to ­Contestation in Principle
  10. Chapter 4 Habermas and the Possibility of Popular Sovereignty
  11. Chapter 5 Habermas and the Perfectibility of ­Deliberative Outcomes
  12. Part Three Perfecting Recognition Relations
  13. Chapter 6 Honneth and the Possibility of Mutual ­Recognition
  14. Chapter 7 Honneth and Moral Progress in the Quality of Recognition Relations
  15. Chapter 8 Im/Possibility and the Cultivation of ­Deconstructive Civic Attitudes
  16. Notes
  17. Reference
  18. Index