Contexts of Justice: Political Philosophy beyond Liberalism and Communitarianism (Philosophy, Social Theory, and the Rule of Law)

360 Pages·2002·37.06 MB·English

by  Rainer Forst

CONTEXTS OF JUSTICE
Political Philosophy beyond Liberalism and Communitarianism
Rainer Forst
Translated by John M. M. Farrell
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PHILOSOPHY, SOCIAL THEORY, AND THE RULE OF LAW
General Editors
Andrew Arato, Seyla Benhabib, Ferenc Feher, William Forbath,
Agnes Heller, Arthur Jacobson, and Michel Rosenfeld
1. William Rehg, Insight and Solidarity:
A Study in the Discourse Ethics of Jurgen Habermas
2. Alan Brudner, The Unity of the Common Law:
Studies in Hegelian Jurisprudence
3. Peter Goodrich, Oedipus Lex:
Psychoanalysis, History, Law
4. Michel Rosenfeld, Just Interpretations:
Law between Ethics and Politics
5. Jeanne Lorraine Schroeder, The Vestal and the Fasces:
Hegel, Lacan, Property, and the Feminine
6. Michel Rosenfeld and Andrew Arato, editors, Habermas on Law
and Democracy: Critical Exchanges
7. Desmond Manderson, Songs without Music:
Aesthetic Dimensions of Law and Justice
8. Arthur J. Jacobson and Bernhard Schlink, editors, Weimar:
A Jurisprudence of Crisis
9. Rainer Forst, Contexts of Justice:
Political Philosophy beyond Liberalism and Communitarianism.
Translated by John M. M. Farrell.
The publisher gratefully acknowledges the contribution
to the series Philosophy, Social Theory, and
the Rule of Law provided by the
Jacob Burns Institute for Advanced Legal Studies
of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Contexts of Justice

Contexts of Justice
Political Philosophy beyond Liberalism
and Communitarianism
Rainer Forst
TRANSLATED BY
John M. M. Farrell
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
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Originally published as Kontexte der Gerechtigkeit. Politische Philosophie jenseits von Liberalismus
und Kommunitarismus. © Suhrkamp 1994
University of California Press
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London, England
© 2002 by the Regents of the University of California
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Forst, Rainer, 1964-
[Kontexte der Gerechtigkeit. English]
Contexts of justice : political philosophy beyond liberalism and
communitarianism / Rainer Forst; translated by John M.M. Farrell.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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CONTENTS
PREFACE /
Introduction: Liberalism, Communitarianism,
and the Question of Justice / 3
1. The Constitution of the Self / 6
1.1. The Critique of the "Unencumbered Self/ 8
1.2. Ethical Person and Legal Person / 16
2. The Ethical Neutrality of Law / 30
2.1. Liberalism and Neutrality / 31
2.2. Individual Bights and Autonomy as a Good / 48
2.3. General Law and Particular Identities / 68
2.4. Basic Individual Rights / 80
3. The Ethos of Democracy / 88
3.1. Modus Vivendi and Overlapping Consensus / 90
3.2. Substantivist and Republican Communitarianism /
3.3. Civil Society and Deliberative Democracy /
3.4. Citizenship and Social Justice / 137
4. Universalism and Contextualism / 154
4.1. A Contextualist Universalism / 7 57
4.2. Constructivism and Practical Reason / 173
4.3. Which Person ? Whose Reason ? / 200
4.4. Ethical Universalism and Modern Identity / 215
5. Contexts of Justice / 230
5. j. Justice and the Good / 231
5.2. Contexts of Justification / 241
5.3. Contexts of Recognition / 275
NOTES / 2
93
BIBLIOGRAPHY / 309
INDEX / 335
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