Much ado about nothing -- Early debate -- Two nonrival theories of justice -- Habermas's early criticisms of Rawls -- Habermas's and Rawls's mature political theories -- Habermas between facts and norms -- Rawls's political liberalism -- The exchange -- Reconciliation through the public use of reason -- Reply to Habermas -- Reasonable versus true -- The legacy of the Habermas-Rawls dispute -- Religion in the bounds of public reason alone
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In the 1990s, Jürgen Habermas and John Rawls had a famous exchange in the Journal of Philosophy. In this book, James Gordon Finlayson examines the Habermas-Rawls debate in context and considers its wider implications