Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy

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John Wiley & Sons, 12 mar 2018 - 363 páginas
This is Habermas's long awaited work on law, democracy and the modern constitutional state in which he develops his own account of the nature of law and democracy.
 

Índice

Law as a Category of Social Mediation between Facts and Norms
1
The Sociology of Law versus the Philosophy of Justice
42
A Reconstructive Approach to Law I The System of Rights
82
A Reconstructive Approach to Law II The Principles of the Constitutional State
132
The Indeterminacy of Law and the Rationality of Adjudication
194
Judiciary and Legislature On the Role and Legitimacy of Constitutional Adjudication
238
Deliberative Politics A Procedural Concept of Democracy
287
Civil Society and the Political Public Sphere
329
Paradigms of Law
388
Postscript 1994
447
Popular Sovereignty as Procedure 1988
463
Citizenship and National Identity 1990
491
Notes
517
Bibliography
571
Index
595
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Jürgen Habermas is a German philosopher and sociologist in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. He is perhaps best known for his theories on communicative rationality and the public sphere. In 2014, Prospect readers chose Habermas as one of their favourites among the "world's leading thinkers".

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