New book on Rawls and Habermas

Rawls and HabermasReason, Pluralism, and the Claims of Political Philosophyby Todd Hedrick(Stanford University Press, 2010)256 pagesDescriptionThis book offers a comprehensive evaluation of the two preeminent post-WWII political philosophers, John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas. Both men question how we can be free and autonomous under coercive law and how we might collectively use our reason to justify exercises of political power. In pluralistic modern democracies, citizens cannot be expected to agree about social norms on the basis of common allegiance to comprehensive metaphysical or religious doctrines concerning persons or society, and both...

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