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Title: Todd Hedrick, Rawls and Habermas: Reason, Pluralism, And the Claims of Political Philosophy (Book Review)
Author : Social Theory and Practice
Release Date : January 01, 2011
Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
Pages : * pages
Size : 198 KB

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Todd Hedrick, Rawls and Habermas: Reason, Pluralism, and the Claims of Political Philosophy (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), vii + 242 pp. This book explores the political philosophies of John Rawls and Jurgen Habermas. it views both as attempting to find a place for reason in political life given that we now live in a "post-metaphysical" age--that is, an age in which it is no longer possible to understand reason as putting us into epistemic contact with a set of timeless and universal moral truths relevant to the organization of political cooperation. The focus is on Rawls's Political Liberalism and Habermas's Between Facts and Norms, but greater attention is devoted to Habermas's theory, which Hedrick regards as the more successful of the two. In what follows, I describe Hedrick's argument and then raise some questions about it.