New issue of "Public Reason"

A new issue of the online journal "Public Reason" (Vol. 2, No 2) is available. It includesModus Vivendi, Consensus, and (Realist) Liberal Legitimacy Enzo Rossi (University of Wales)“Scales of Justice” and the Challenges of Global GovernmentalityIna Kerner (Humboldt University of Berlin)The Basis of Universal Liberal Principles in Nussbaum’s Political Philosophy Matthias Katzer (University of Siegen)Dussel’s Critique of Discourse Ethics as Critique of IdeologyAsger Sørensen (University of Aarhus)Amartya Sen, The Idea of Justice (pdf)Reviewed by Stefan Bird-Pollan (University of Kentuc...

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Mendieta on Habermas's forthcoming book on religion

In a new essay on Habermas's thoughts on "Rationalization, modernity and secularization", Eduardo Mendieta gives us some information about Habermas's forthcoming book on religion:"In autumn 2008, Habermas gave a series of lectures at Yale, which were followed the next autumn by another set of lectures, and a seminar at Stony Brook University on "Political Theology". That same autumn a workshop was organized on Habermas's recent work on religion for which he made available several large manuscripts of what appears to be the working draft for a book on religion. The workshop yielded a large manuscript of essays engaging Habermas's comprehensive rethinking of some of his earlier ideas and formulations on religion. One of the centrepieces of this working draft is a critique of modernization theory...

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New introduction to John Rawls

Rawls ExplainedFrom Fairness to Utopiaby Paul Voice(Open Court, 2011)176 pagesDescriptionThis book introduces the reader to the political theories of the American philosopher John Rawls. Rawls Explained sets out Rawls’s complex arguments in a way that makes them accessible to first-time readers of his hugely influential work. This book is both clear in its exposition of Rawls’s ideas and is true to the complex purposes of his arguments. It also attends to the variety of objections that have been made to Rawls’s arguments since it is these objections that have shaped the progression of his work.Contents [preview]IntroductionPart I: A Theory of...

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