Discourse and Democracy

René von Schomberg is a Research Fellow at the European Commission. He is the editor of Science, Politics, and Morality: Scientific Uncertainty and Decision Making and the coeditor, with Peter Wheale and Peter Glasner, of The Social Management of Genetic Engineering. Kenneth Baynes is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is the author of The Normative Grounds of Social Criticism: Kant, Rawls, and Habermas, also published by SUNY Press, and the coeditor, with James Bohman and Thomas McCarthy, of After Philosophy: End or Transformation?

"These essays enter deeply into Habermas's recent work, examine its demanding range of issues comprehensively, largely root his recent work in the theory of communicative action developed in the early years of the 1980s, and consistently engage Habermas at the highest level. In addition, the essays clarify many features of Habermas's work during the past twenty years that still remain obscure to even his most conscientious readers." — Morton Schoolman, author of Reason and Horror: Critical Theory, Democracy, and Aesthetic Individuality"A very helpful guide in negotiating the intricacies of Habermasian political philosophy." — Simone Chambers, author of Reasonable Democracy: Jürgen Habermas and the Politics of Discourse

• Acknowledgments Introduction I. Initial Assessments of Between Facts and Norms 1. Deliberative Democracy and the Limits of LiberalismKenneth Baynes 2. Discourse and Democracy: The Formal and Informal Bases of Legitimacy in Between Facts and NormsWilliam Rehg and James Bohman 3. Between Radicalism and Resignation: Democratic Theory in Habermas's Between Facts and NormsWilliam E. Scheuerman II. Historical and Comparative Perspectives 4. Liberties and Popular Sovereignty: On Habermas's Reconstruction of the System of RightsIngeborg Maus 5. Habermas, Hegel, and the Concept of LawAndrew Buchwalter 6. Rawls and HabermasHauke Brunkhorst III. Further Assessments and Wider Implications 7. Law, Solidarity, and the Tasks of PhilosophyPeter Dews 8. Rational Politics? An Exploration of the Fruitfulness of the Discursive Concept of DemocracyGeert Munnichs 9. The Disappearance of Discourse Ethics in Habermas's Between Facts and NormsMatthias Kettner 10. The Erosion of Our Value Spheres: The Ways in which Society Copes with Scientific, Moral, and Ethical UncertaintyRené von Schomberg IV. Interview 11. A Conversation about Questions of Political TheoryJürgen Habermas Contributors Index