Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Introduction: The Habermas Rawls Dispute—
Analysis and Reevaluation 1
JAMES GORDON FINLAYSON AND FABIAN FREYENHAGEN
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The Habermas–Rawls Dispute

1 Reconciliation through the Public Use of Reason:
Remarks on John Rawls’s Political Liberalism 25
JÜRGEN HABERMAS
2 Reply to Habermas 46
JOHN RAWLS
3 “Reasonable” versus “True,” or the Morality of Worldviews 92
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by James Gordon Finlayson

Oxford University Press

This book gives a clear and readable overview of the philosophical work of Jürgen Habermas, the most influential German philosopher alive today, who has commented widely on subjects such as Marxism, the importance and effectiveness of communication, the reunification of Germany, and the European Union. Gordon Finlayson provides readers with a clear and readable overview of Habermas’s forbiddingly complex philosophy using concrete examples and accessible language. He then goes on to analyse both the theoretical underpinnings of Habermas’s social theory, and its more concrete applications in the fields of ethics, politics, and law; and concludes with an examination how Habermas’s social and political theory informs his writing on contemporary, political, and social problems.

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