reason, pluralism, and the claims of political philosophy /
First Statement of Responsibility
Todd Hedrick
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Stanford, Calif. :
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Stanford University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2010
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x, 242 p. ;
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23 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Freestanding political philosophy and the descriptivist critique of Rawls -- The Rawlsian apparatus of justification -- Rawls between metaphysics and proceduralism -- Procedure and substance, construction and reconstruction -- Discourse theory and the constitutional democratic state -- Proceduralism and functionalism in Habermas's theory of law and democracy -- Rawls and the critique of constitutional contractarianism -- Habermasian constitutional theory -- Conclusion : idealizations and power