Perfecting Justice in Rawls, Habermas and Honneth

A Deconstructive Perspective

AvMiriam Bankovsky

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

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In this exciting new work, Miriam Bankovsky shows how the pursuit of justice requires two orientations. The first is a practical commitment to the possibility of justice, which is the clear starting point for the broadly constructive theories of Rawls, Habermas and Honneth. Indeed, if justice were not possible, it would be difficult to see why it is worthwhile for human beings to live on this earth. However, a second orientation qualifies the first. It can be expressed as a deconstructive attentiveness to the impossibility of determining justice's content. This impossibility results from the tension between the appeal for individual consideration and the appeal for impartiality, demands that Derrida believes our historical concept of justice includes. Framed by these two orientations, this ambitious book explores the promise and shortcomings of the constructive theories. Attentive to concrete experiences of injustice that these thinkers tend to overlook, Bankovsky provocatively challenges Rawls' account of civil disobedience, Habermas' defence of rational consensus, and Honneth's ideal of mutual recognition, providing new insights into deconstruction's relevance for contemporary theories of justice.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-11-21
Mått:156 x 234 x 14 mm
Vikt:367 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Bloomsbury Research in Political Philosophy
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781472522146

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Miriam Bankovsky lectures in politics at La Trobe University, Australia. She is the co-editor, with Alice Le Goff, of Recognition theory and contemporary French moral and political philosophy: Reopening the dialogue (2012).

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'In this clearly written and carefully argued book, Miriam Bankovsky brings Jacques Derrida's deconstruction to bear on Rawls, Habermas and Honneth to develop a deconstructive perspective on justice that does not simply deny the possibility of justice. The book will be hard to ignore for anyone interested in the relationship between these thinkers.'

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Acknowledgements \ 1. Perfecting justice: an art of the im/possible \ Part I. Justice as fairness: a project to pursue \ 2. Rawls and the possibility of 'ideal theory' \ 3. Rawls and the 'undecidability' of the original position procedure \ Part II. Rational consensus: open to contestation in principle \ 4. Habermas and the possibility of popular sovereignty \ 5. Habermas and the perfectibility of deliberative outcomes \ Part III. Perfecting recognition relations \ 6. Honneth and the possibility of mutual recognition \ 7. Honneth and moral progress in the quality of recognition relations \ 8. Im/possibility and the cultivation of deconstructive civic attitudes \ Bibliography \ Index