Democracy, power and legitimacy: the critical theory of jurgen habermas

By:

Shabani, Omid A. Payrow

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: 2003 University of Toronto Press TorontoDescription: viii, 238 pISBN:

9780802087614

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DDC classification:

321.801 S4D3

Summary: Over his long and fruitful scholarly life, Jurgen Habermas has patiently laboured to diagnose the limitations and free the potential of the project of modernity - the pursuit of the ideal of free society by rational subjects. Omid A. Payrow Shabani here analyses the development of Habermas's critical philosophy in its pursuit of a theory of justice that can address the ethico-political concerns of our diverse, pluralist, and fragmented society. He contends that Habermas's more recent work represents a position that is inadequately critical of the existing political order in liberal democracies. (http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9780802087614-1)

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Over his long and fruitful scholarly life, Jurgen Habermas has patiently laboured to diagnose the limitations and free the potential of the project of modernity - the pursuit of the ideal of free society by rational subjects. Omid A. Payrow Shabani here analyses the development of Habermas's critical philosophy in its pursuit of a theory of justice that can address the ethico-political concerns of our diverse, pluralist, and fragmented society. He contends that Habermas's more recent work represents a position that is inadequately critical of the existing political order in liberal democracies. (http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9780802087614-1)

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