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Index
Cover
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Series Page
Title
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Contents
Preface
Introduction: The Scandal of Reason and the Paradox of Judgment
The Shortfalls of Political Ethics
The Paradox of Judgment: Social Criticism Between the Morally Imperative and the politically Expedient
The Urgent Nature of the Political
Toward a Political Epistemology of Judgment
Conceptual Resources of the Model
The Structure of the Argument
Chapter 1. Political Judgment and the Vocation of Critical Theory
Political Judgment: Between Politics and Governance
The Paradox of Judgment in the Standard Normative Model
Justice in Complex Democracies: The Communicative Turn
The “Public Reason” Solution: The Discursive Normative Model
The Rivalry Between Legitimacy and Justice
Deliberative Democracy: Justice beyond Legitimacy
Conclusion: The Demands on Dialogical Democracy
Chapter 2. Critical Theory: Political Judgment as Ideologiekritik
Why Communicative Therapy Would Not Do
The Frankfurt School: Six Components of Critical Theory
The Communicative Turn
The Pragmatic Turn
Conclusion: The Price of Social Criticism
Chapter 3. Philosophical Liberalism: Reasonable Judgment
Transformation as a Point of Departure
Normative Validity Within the Original Liberal Model
From Justice to Judgment
Toward a Discourse Normative Model
A Reluctant and Conservative Turn
Conclusion: The Price of Reasonable Justice
Chapter 4. Philosophical Liberalism and Critical Theory in Dispute
Communicative Solutions to the Judgment Paradox
Rawls Versus Habermas on Compliance, Legitimacy, and Justice
Communicative Justification Gone Astray?
A Farewell to Social Criticism
Conclusion: Who Is Afraid of the Hermeneutic Turn?
Chapter 5. Judgment Unbound: Arendt
Philosophy’s Coming of Age: Daring to Judge
Judging the Political: Sensible Judgment
The Preconditions for Judging: Dialectics of Seeing
Critique of Power without Social Criticism?
Conclusion: Toward Social Hermeneutics of Judgment
Chapter 6. From Critique of Power to a Critical Theory of Judgment
Toward a Critical Consensus Model of Justification
The Vindication of Critical Theory: Six Trajectories
Social Criticism after the Communicative Turn
Chapter 7. The Political Epistemology of Judgment
The Constitution of Public Reason and Its Normative Effect
Paradigms of Articulation and Signification
The Structural Sources of Phronetic Normativity
Chapter 8. The Critical Consensus Model
Revising the Discourse Normative Model
Recasting the Hermeneutic Level
Human Interests and Normative Reasons
Validity
Chapter 9. Judgment, Criticism, Innovation
From Dialogical Consensus to Social Criticism
The Possibility of Discursive Disagreement (First Degree of Criticism)
The “Enlarged Mentality” (Second Degree of Criticism)
Judging as Critique of Ideology (Third Degree of Criticism)
Judging and Criteria of Justice
Normative Innovation and Social Change
Conclusion: Letting Go of Ideal Theory
Glossary
Notes
References
Index
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