SAGE MASTERS IN MODERN SOCIAL THOUGHT

HABERMAS II

VOLUME 1

Edited by

David M. Rasmussen and James Swindal

ISAGE Los Angeles 1 London 1 New Delhi

Singapore 1 Washington DC

Contents

Appendix of Sources Editors' lntroduction David M. Rasmussen and James Swindal

Volume 1

1. The Engagement with Postmodernity and Phenomenology

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1. Adorno and Habennas on the Human Condition 3 Deborah Cook

2. A Moment of Unconditional Validity? Schutz and the Habennas/Rorty Debate 27 Michael D. Barber

3. Remarks on Derri.da and Habennas 43 Simon Critchley

4. Perfonnative Powerlessness - A Response to Simon Critchley 55 Jacques Derrida (Thanslated by James lngram)

5. Disenchanunent and the Persistence of Evil: Habennas, Jonas, Badiou 59 Peter Dews

6. Foucault and Enlightenment: A Critical Reappraisal 75 AmyAllen

7. Foucault Contra Habennas: Enlightenment, Powe~ and Critique 95 DayWong

8. "How Can Anyone Be Called Guilty?" Speech, Responsibility, and the Social Relation in Habennas and Levinas 117 Asher Horowitz

9. Apologies: Levinas and Dialogue 149 Bob Plant

10. Speech and Sensibility: Levinas and Habennas on the Constitution of the Moral Point of View 165 Steven Hendley

11. Levinas, Habennas and Modemity 185 Nicholas H. Smith

II. Hermeneutics and Epistemology

12. 'Gadamerian Platitudes' and Rational Interpretations Kenneth Baynes

13. Habennas and Validity Claims Jari 1. Niemi

14. Llfeworld, Discourse, and Realism: On Jürgen Habennas's Theory of 1iuth Axel Seemann

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15. McDowell and Habennas in a Post-traditional World 253 Myra Bookman

16. The Role ofRules 265 Michael Rosen

17. Self-consciousness and Self-knowledge: On Sorne Difficulties with the Reduction of Subjectivity 281 Manfred Frank (Translated by Bruce Mathews)

18. The Return to Subjectivity as a Challenge to Critical Theory 301 Dieter Freundlieb

19. Justification: Reflexive and/or Discursive? 321 Petra Hedberg

20. Habennas and Durnrnett: Beyond Dogrnatisrn and Scepticisrn 345 Anat Matar

m. Metaphysics

21. Habennas on Cornpatibilisrn and Ontological Monisrn: Sorne Problems 361 Michael Quante

22. Neuroscience, lntentionality and Free Will: Reply to Habennas 373 John R. Searle

23. Habennas between Metaphysical and Natural Realisrn 383 Steven Hendley

24. Centrality as a Challenge to Ousia in Jürgen Habennas 401 John McCumber

25. Frorn Habennas to Horkheirner's Early Work: Directions for a Materialist Reconstruction of Cornrnunicative Critical Theory 419 Konstantinos Kavoulakos

Volume II

1" Nonnativity and Reason

26. Cornrnunication and Rational Justification: A Phenornenological Stance 3 Pol Vandevelde

27. Universalist Grandeur, Rornantic Depth, Pragrnatist Cunning 25 Richard Rorty

28. Liberalization, Modernization, Westernization 39 Joseph Heath

29. The TI'anscendental Turn: Habennas's "Kantian Pragrnatisrn" 63 Kenneth Baynes

30. Inferentialisrn and Cornrnunicative Action: Robust Conceptions of lntersubjectivity 83 Barbara Fultner

31. Freedorn and Recognition in Hegel and Habermas 91 Kenneth Baynes

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32. Intersubjectivity- Interactionist or Discursive? Reflections on Habermas' Critique of Brandom 107 Piet Strydom

33. Communication and Content: Circumstances and Consequences of the Habermas-Brandom Debate 123 Kevin Scharp

34. Facts, Norms, and Normative Facts: A Reply to Habermas 141 Robert Brandom

'\L Discourse Ethics

35. Why There Is No Issue between Habermas and Rawls 163 Christopher McMahon

36. Modemity and Morality in Habermas's Discourse Ethics 179 James Gordon Finlayson

37. Debate: What Are 'Universalizable Interests'? 201 James Gordon Finlayson

38. Habermas's Moral Cognitivism and the Frege-Geach Challenge 217 James Gordon Finlayson

39. Discoursing about Discourse 245 Logi Gunnarsson

40. A Substantivist Construal of Discourse Ethics 259 Pa.blo Gilabert

41. Should Discourse Ethics Do without a Principle of Universalization? 291 Pa.blo Gilabert

42. Procedural Justice? Implications of the Rawls-Habermas Debate for Discourse Ethics 301 Cristina La.font

43. Moral Objectivity and Reasonable Agreement: Can Realism Be Reconciled with Kantian Constructivism? 317 Cristina La.font

44. Discourse Ethics and the Problem of Begründung 343 Tum Rockmore

45. Suffering Injustice: Misrecognition as Moral Injury in Critical Theory 361 J.M. Bernstein

46. Immanuel Kant, Jürgen Habermas and the Categorical Imperative 383 Anders Bordum

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VI. Law, Democracy, and the Public Sphere

47. From Demos to Demoi: Democracy across Borders James Bohman

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48. Between Deliberative and Participatory Democracy: A Contribution on Habermas 25 Denise Vitale

49. For an Agonistic Model of Democracy 51 Chantal Mouffe

SO. Constitutional Rights, Balancing, and Rationality 69 Robert Alexy

51. Morality, Identity and "Constitutional Patriotism" 79 Frank l. Michelman

52. Democracy and the Individual: Deliberative and Existential Negotiations 99 MartinLeet

53. Consensus and Power in Deliberative Democracy 119 TimHeysse

54. Two Notions of Humanity and the Judgment Argument for Human Rights 143 Alessandro Ferrara

55. Deliberative Democracy and Constitutional Review 171 Christopher E Zum

56. Do Rights Have a Formal Basis? Habermas' Legal Theory and the Normative Foundations of the Law 229 Kevin Olson

VIl. Cosmopolitanism and the Nation State

57. Between Political Liberalism and Postnational Cosmopolitanism: Toward an Alternative Theory of Human Rights 253 David Ingram

58. On Reconciling Cosmopolitan Unity and National Diversity 283 Thomas McCarthy

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VIll. Habermas and Psychology

59. Jacques Lacan and Jürgen Habermas: From Subjectivity to Intersubjective Speech Roger Frie

IX. Habermas and Bioethics

60. Rethinking "Liberal Eugenics": Reflections and Questions on

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Habermas on Bioethics 35 Bemard G. Prusak

61. Habermas on Human Cloning: The Debate on the Future of the Species 57 Eduardo Mendieta

62. Remarks on Habermas's Presentation of"Cavenir de la Nature Humaine" 79 Cristina Lafont

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63. Liberal Eugenics & Human Nature: Against Habermas Elir.abeth Fenton

X. Habermas and Feminism

64. Ferninisrn and Dernocratic Deliberation Georgia Warnke

65. Ferninisrn and Haberrnas' Discourse Ethics Johanna Meehan

XI. Aesthetics

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66. Imaginative Disclosure: Adorno, Habermas, and Artistic Truth 133 Lambert Zuidervaart

XII. Habennas and Religion

67. Habermas in Dialogue with Theologians 161 Nicholas Adams

68. Reason, Faith, and Secularization: Jürgen Habermas Meets Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger 179 Gerhold K. Becker

69. Reason, Society and Religion: Reflections on 11 September frorn a Habermasian Perspective 199 Anqy Wallace

70. Rights, Reasons, and Religious Conflict: Habermas and Scanlon on the Role of Religion in Public Debate 223 Glen Pettigrove

71. Salvaging and Secularizing the Sernantic Contents of Religion: The Lirnitations of Haberrnas's Postmetaphysical Proposal 235 MaeveCooke

72. Religion in the Public Sphere: Rernarks on Habermas's Conception of Public Deliberation in Postsecular Societies 259 Cristina Lafont

73. Rawls and Habermas on Religion in the Public Sphere 283 Melissa Yate.s

XIII. Habermas and Science

74. Habermas, Argumentation Theory, and Science Studies: Toward Interdisciplinary Cooperation 295 William Rehg