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16Pluralizing Constitutional Review in International Law: A Critical Theory ApproachRevista Portuguesa de Filosofia 70 (2-3): 261-286. 2014.Resumo O autor defende uma descrição normativa fraca do constitucionalismo internacional à luz de dois factos: a contínua relevância da soberania do Estado face à hegemonia de superpotências e a necessidade imperiosa de um regime supranacional eficaz de direitos humanos. Ao defender uma institucionalização constitucional de direitos humanos, que inclui aspectos de justiça processual e material, mostra-se que, como nos casos domésticos, tal institucionalização pode e, talvez deva, incorporar um p…Read more
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5Rights, Democracy, and Fulfillment in the Era of Identity Politics: Principled Compromises in a Compromised WorldRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2004.Rights, Democracy, and Fulfillment in the Era of Identity Politics develops a critical theory of human rights and global democracy. Ingram both develops a theory of rights and applies it to a range of concrete and timely issues, such as the persistence of racism in contemporary American society; the emergence of so-called 'whiteness theory;' the failure of identity politics; the tensions between emphases on antidiscrimination and affirmative action in the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990;…Read more
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Philosophy and the Aesthetic Mediation of Life: Weber and Habermas on the Paradox of RationalityPhilosophical Forum 18 (4): 329-357. 1987.
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77Jürgen Habermas and Hans‐Georg GadamerIn Robert C. Solomon & David Sherman (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to Continental Philosophy, Blackwell. 2003.This chapter contains sections titled: Biographical Background to the Gadamer/Habermas Debate Gadamer Habermas Conclusion.
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11I argue that the same factors that motivated Catholicism to champion liberal democracy are the same that motivate 21st Century Islam to do the same. I defend this claim by linking political liberalism to democratic secularism. Distinguishing institutional, political, and epistemic dimensions of democratic secularism, I show that moderate forms of political and epistemic secularism are most conducive to fostering the kind of public reasoning essential to democratic legitimacy. This demonstration …Read more
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7. Law and Democracy: Part II: Power and the Clash of ParadigmsIn Habermas: Introduction and Analysis, Cornell University Press. pp. 193-220. 2016.
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26Habermas: Introduction and Analysis (edited book)Cornell University Press. 2010."This is a marvelous resource for anyone interested in better understanding the difficult and voluminous work of jurgen Habermas.
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58. Law and Democracy: Part III: Applying the Proceduralist ParadigmIn Habermas: Introduction and Analysis, Cornell University Press. pp. 221-252. 2016.
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26. Law and Democracy: Part I: The Foundational RightsIn Habermas: Introduction and Analysis, Cornell University Press. pp. 153-192. 2016.
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13Habermas and the Dialectic of ReasonYale University Press. 1987.In his magnum opus, Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns, the distinguished philosopher Jurgen Habermas presented his ideas as a whole, providing the first major defense of his philosophy. David Ingram here summarizes the themes of Habermas's masterwork, placing them in the context of the philosopher's other work, relating them to poststructuralism, hermeneutics, and Neo-Aristotelianism, and surveying what other critics have said about Habermas. "Ingram's exposition of Habermas is impressive for …Read more
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39Habermas and the Unfinished Project of DemocracyHuman Studies 28 (2): 223-225. 2005.This collection of ten essays offers the first systematic assessment of The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity, Jurgen Habermas's masterful defense of the rational potential of the modern age. An opening essay by Maurizio Passerin d'Entreves orients the debate between Habermas and the postmodernists by identifying two different senses of responsibility. Habermas's own essay discusses the themes of his book in the context of a critical engagement with neoconservative cultural and political tren…Read more
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52. Habermas’s Defense of Psychoanalytic Social ScienceIn Habermas: Introduction and Analysis, Cornell University Press. pp. 33-66. 2016.
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32Explanation and understanding revisited: Bohman and the new philosophy of social science (review)Human Studies 20 (4): 413-428. 1997.James Bohman has succeeded in reinvigorating the old debate over explanation and understanding by situating it within contemporary discussions about sociological indeterminacy and complexity. I argue that Bohman's preference for a paradigm based on Habermas's theory of communicative action is justifiable given the explanatory deficiencies of ethnomethodological, rational choice, rule-based, and functionalist methodologies. Yet I do not share his belief that the paradigm is preferable to less for…Read more
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25Exceptional Justice? A Discourse Ethical Contribution to the Immigrant QuestionCritical Horizons 10 (1): 1-30. 2009.I argue that the exception must be a legitimate possibility within law as a revolutionary project, in much the same way that civil disobedience is. In this sense, the exception is not outside law if by "law" we mean not positive law as defined by extant legal documents (statutes, legislative committee reports, written judgments, etc.) but law as a living tradition consisting of both abstract norms and a concrete historical understanding of them. So construed, the exception is what can be exempla…Read more
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83Dworkin, Habermas, and the cls movement on moral criticism in lawPhilosophy and Social Criticism 16 (4): 237-268. 1990.CLS advocates renew Marx's critique of liberalism by impugning the rationality of formal rights. Habermas and Dworkin argue against this view, while showing how liberal polity might permit reasonable conflicts between competing principles of right. Their models of legitimate legislation and adjudication, however, presuppose criteria of rationality whose appeal to truth ignores the manner in which law is--and sometimes ought to be--compromised. Hence a weaker version of the CLS critique may be ap…Read more
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20Blumenberg and the Philosophical Grounds of HistoriographyHistory and Theory 29 (1): 1-15. 1990.Blumenberg's rejection of Karl Lowith's secularization thesis, as presented in Lowith's The Legitimacy of the Modern Age, and Blumenberg's defense of an alternative theory of functional reoccupations raises questions about the kind of progress he finds operant in historiography and historical understanding. These questions are best addressed within the framework of his recent Work on Myth, which defines the legitimacy of an age or myth in terms of progressive adaptability rather than autonomy. N…Read more
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4Philosophy in the middle of the 20th Century, between 1920 and 1968, responded to the cataclysmic events of the time. Thinkers on the Right turned to authoritarian forms of nationalism in search of stable forms of collective identity, will, and purpose. Thinkers on the Left promoted egalitarian forms of humanism under the banner of international communism. Others saw these opposed tendencies as converging in the extinction of the individual and sought to retrieve the ideals of the Enlightenment …Read more
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25. Discourse EthicsIn Habermas: Introduction and Analysis, Cornell University Press. pp. 115-152. 2016.
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1Critical theory to structuralism: philosophy, politics and the human sciencesIn Alan D. Schrift (ed.), The History of Continental Philosophy, University of Chicago Press. 2010.Philosophy in the middle of the 20th Century, between 1920 and 1968, responded to the cataclysmic events of the time. Thinkers on the Right turned to authoritarian forms of nationalism in search of stable forms of collective identity, will, and purpose. Thinkers on the Left promoted egalitarian forms of humanism under the banner of international communism. Others saw these opposed tendencies as converging in the extinction of the individual and sought to retrieve the ideals of the Enlightenment …Read more
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9Philosophy in the middle of the 20th Century, between 1920 and 1968, responded to the cataclysmic events of the time. Thinkers on the Right turned to authoritarian forms of nationalism in search of stable forms of collective identity, will, and purpose. Thinkers on the Left promoted egalitarian forms of humanism under the banner of international communism. Others saw these opposed tendencies as converging in the extinction of the individual and sought to retrieve the ideals of the Enlightenment …Read more
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C. Fred Alford, Science and the Revenge of Nature: Marcuse and Habermas Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 6 (7): 324-326. 1986.
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123Contractualism, democracy, and social law: Basic antinomies in liberal thoughtPhilosophy and Social Criticism 17 (4): 265-296. 1991.
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57Between Political Liberalism and Postnational CosmopolitanismPolitical Theory 31 (3): 359-391. 2003.It is well known that Rawls and Habermas propose different strategies for justifying and classifying human rights. The author argues that neither approach satisfies what he regards as threshold conditions of determinacy, rank ordering, and completeness that any enforceable system of human rights must possess. A related concern is that neither develops an adequate account of group rights, which the author argues fulfills subsidiary conditions for realizing human rights under specific conditions. …Read more
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30Calhoun, Craig , "Habermas and the Public Sphere" (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 33 (n/a): 249-250. 1993.
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100Critical theory and philosophyParagon House. 1990.Critical Theory and Philosophy illuminates one of the most complex and influential philosophical movements of this century. After tracking Critical Theory to its source in the works of Kant, Hegel, Marx, and Weber, David Ingram examines the four major figures of the Frankfurt School: Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse, and Jurgen Habermas. The logical structure of this text guides both novice and veteran students through specific social and political concerns toward a gradual unders…Read more
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9Between Political Liberalism and Postnational Cosmopolitanism: Toward an Alternative Theory of Human RightsPhilosophy Today 31 (3): 359-391. 2003.It is well known that Rawls and Habermas propose different strategies for justifying and classifying human rights. The author argues that neither approach satisfies what he regards as threshold conditions of determinacy, rank ordering, and completeness that any enforceable system of human rights must possess. A related concern is that neither develops an adequate account of group rights, which the author argues fulfills subsidiary conditions for realizing human rights under specific conditions. …Read more
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