Perfecting justice in Rawls, Habermas, and Honneth : a deconstructive perspective /: a deconstructive perspective. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Miriam Bankovsky.
• Authors: Bankovsky, Miriam
• Contents: Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Perfecting Justice: An Art of the Im/Possible; Two Deconstructive Perspectives: Justice as Betrayal and as Negotiation; The 'Art of the Possible' and its Ideas; The Possibility of the Unimaginable: Justice-To-Come; Revisiting the History of Constructive-Deconstructive Relations; Deconstructive Civic Duties: A Culture Willing to Make the Effort; Part One Justice as Fairness: A Project to Pursue; Chapter 2 Rawls and the Possibility of 'Ideal Theory'; The Immodesty of 'Ideal Theory' in Rawls's Early Work: Unanimous Agreement. Kantian Criteria for the Possible: Taming Levinasian ObligationA Further Criterion: Practicability; From a Homogenous Morality Towards an Acknowledgement of Impossibility; Further Qualifications; Moderating the 'Art of the Possible': A Deconstructive Perspective; Chapter 3 Rawls and the 'Undecidability' of the Original Position Procedure; The Priority of Liberty: Initial Immunity to Anti-Democratic Outcomes; The Failures of Rawlsian Justice: On the Duty to Comply with Injustice; Correcting Rawls on 'Excusable General Envy': A Sentiment with Moral Significance; Justice-to-Come in Rawls. Part Two Rational Consensus: Open to Contestation in Principle Chapter 4 Habermas and the Possibility of Popular Sovereignty; Overcoming the Failures of Rawlsian Justice; Impartiality: Justification, Not Mere Acceptance; Moral Personhood: Procedural Features, Not Substantive Assumptions; Practicability: Expressions of Popular Sovereignty, Not Overlapping Consensus; The Im/Possible Content of Democratic Will-Formation; Chapter 5 Habermas and the Perfectibility of Deliberative Outcomes; Protections for Autonomy: Initial Immunity to Anti-Democratic Outcomes. Beyond an Obsessive Levinasian Analysis: Problems with Asymmetrical ObligationRational Consensus: Empirically Implausible; Rational Consensus: Conceptually Im/Possible; Provisionality and its Challenges: Derrida's Critique of Habermas and Deconstructive Civic Attitudes; Part Three Perfecting Recognition Relations; Chapter 6 Honneth and the Possibility of Mutual Recognition; Honneth's Hegelian Critique of Kantian Autonomy: Human Interdependency; A Hegelian Concept of Practical Freedom; Normative Reconstruction and its Ideas: Impartiality, Moral Personhood and Practicability. Correcting Rawlsian JusticeCorrecting Habermasian Justice; Deconstructive Responsibility in Honneth's Diagnosis of Social Pathology; Chapter 7 Honneth and Moral Progress in the Quality of Recognition Relations; Authentic Identity: Initial Immunity to Anti-Democratic Outcomes; Initial Problems with Honneth's Interpretation of Deconstructive Care; Conceptual Tensions in Honneth's Theory; Empirical Difficulties with Honneth's Theory: Residual Harm; Deconstructive Attitudes in the Face of Failure; Chapter 8 Im/Possibility and the Cultivation of Deconstructive Civic Attitudes.
• Publisher Details: London New York, New York : Continuum
• Publication Date: 2012
• Copyright Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (257 pages)
• Subjects: 320.01/1; Justice; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference; Justice; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Electronic books; Criticism and interpretation; Criticism and interpretation; Criticism and interpretation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441126962; 1441126961
• Related ISBNs: 9781472522146
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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