Forst, Rainer.

Justification and critique : towards a critical theory of politics / Rainer Forst ; Translated by Ciaran Cronin. - Cambridge, Uk Malden, Ma : Polity Press, ℗♭2014. - 216 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-204) and index.

Introduction: On the Idea of a Critique of Relations of Justification -- Part I Radical Justice -- Two Pictures of Justice -- The Justification of Human Rights and the Basic Right to Justification: A Reflexive Approach -- The Normative Order of Justice and Peace -- Part II Justification, Recognition, and Critique -- The Ground of Critique: On the Concept of Human Dignity in Social Orders of Justification -- First Things First: Redistribution, Recognition, and Emancipation -- Part III Beyond Justice -- The Injustice of Justice: Normative Dialectics According to Ibsen, Cavell, and Adorno -- The Republicanism of Fear and of Redemption: On the Topicality of Hannah Arendt's Political Theory -- Utopia and Irony: On the Normativity of a Political Philosophy of "Nowhere".

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Political science--Philosophy.

JC578 / .F67 2014

320.01

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