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33What are 'universalizable interests'?Journal of Political Philosophy 8 (4). 2000.Many of Habermas's critical commentators agree that Discourse Ethics fails as a theory of the validity of moral norms and only succeeds as a theory of the democratic legitimacy of socio-political norms. The reason they give is that the moral principle is too restrictive to count as a necessary condition of the validity of norms. Other commentators more sympathetic to his project want to abandon principle and remodel Discourse Ethics without it. Still others want to downplay the role of universal…Read more
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16Review of Fred rush (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Critical Theory (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2005 (12). 2005.
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84Habermas and Rawls: Disputing the Political (edited book)Routledge. 2010.Habermas and Rawls are two heavyweights of social and political philosophy, and they are undoubtedly the two most written about authors in this field. However, there has not been much informed and interesting work on the points of intersection between their projects, partly because their work comes from different traditions—roughly the European tradition of social and political theory and the Anglo-American analytic tradition of political philosophy. In this volume, contributors re-examine the H…Read more
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25The Persistence of Normative Questions in Habermas's Theory of Communicative ActionConstellations 20 (4): 518-532. 2013.
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90Morality and Critical Theory: On the Normative Problem of Frankfurt School Social CriticismTelos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2009 (146): 7-41. 2009.I. The Problem of Normative Foundations: Habermas's Original Criticism of Adorno and Horkheimer In The Theory of Communicative Action, Jürgen Habermas writes:From the beginning, critical theory labored over the difficulty of giving an account of its own normative foundations …1Call this Habermas's original objection to the problem of normative foundations. It has been hugely influential both in the interpretation and assessment of Frankfurt School critical theory and in the development of later …Read more
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