Between Facts and Norms

This is Habermasa s long awaited work on law, democracy and the modern constitutional state in which he develops his own account of the nature of law and democracy.

ISBN 0745620116   Pages 636 ISBN13 9780745620114 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd   Weight (grammes) 1028 Imprint Polity Press   Published in Oxford Format Paperback   Height (mm) 227 Publication date 01 Aug 1997   Width (mm) 154 DEWEY 340.1   Spine width (mm) 36 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level Undergraduate, Professional / Scholarly, Postgraduate

Translatora s Introduction. Preface. 1. Law as a Category of Social Mediation between Facts and Norms. 2. The Sociology of Law versus the Philosophy of Justice. 3. A Reconstructive Approach to Law I: The System of Rights. 4. A Reconstructive Approach to Law II: The Principles of the Constitutional State. 5. The Indeterminacy of Law and the Rationality of Adjudication. 6. Judiciary and Legislature: On the Role and Legitimacy of Constitutional Adjudication. 7. Deliberative Politics: A Procedural Concept of Democracy. 8. Civil Society and the Political Public Sphere. 9. Paradigms of Law. Postscript (1994). Appendices. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

a Rich, important ... proceeding through the magisterial scrutiny of theoretical approaches in law, sociology, philosophy and politics, it offers plenty for students of these disciplines to chew on.a Times Higher Education Supplement a A significant development of his theory ... Rehga s translation of Between Facts and Norms is clear and precise and his Introduction helpful.a British Journal of Sociology a In Between Facts and Norms, Habermas offers an inspiring and intellectually stimulating diagnosis of the predicament of modern law ... his contribution will undoubtedly have a lasting influence on this crucially important debate.a Democratization a For at least a generation Jurgen Habermasa s work has made a significant impact on a variety of important debates in philosophy and the social sciences. Between Facts and Norms ... brings together many of Habermasa s earlier concerns and weaves them into a comprehensive and brilliant critical theory of actually existing democracy. From the perspective of the discipline of politics this is undoubtedly Habermasa s most important work. Of course, Habermasa s work is dense, challenging and incredibly broad in its range. It is also controversial, and this work will certainly not win over his most trenchant critics. None of this amounts to a valid excuse to ignore it. This book really is essential reading for anyone who is interested in exploring at depth the possibilities of realizing a genuinely democratic future.a Political Studies a Such a scholarly intensity deserves to be read at first hand.a Sociology, Ian Roberts, Univerisity of Durham a Eleven Years after his monumental Theory of Communicative Action (1981), Jurgen Habermas has again presented an opus magnum.a Otfried Hoffe, Universitat Tubingen, Mind Jurgen Habermas has been awarded the prestigious a Friedenspreis des deutschen Buchhandelsa prize for 2001

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