Critical Encounters with Habermas's Political and Legal Theory /

Critical Encounters with Habermas's Political and Legal Theory /

With over a dozen contributions from scholars across a range of disciplines, this book revisits Jürgen Habermas's de­fining text on legal and political theory, Between Facts and Norms (1992). The contributors interrogate the prospects for Habermas's optimistic defense of liberal democracy...

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Other Authors: Abromeit, John (Editor), Dimick, Matthew (Editor), Linden-Retek, Paul (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Series: Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2026.
Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; 336.

Subjects:

Critical Social Sciences.
Legal Philosophy.
Philosophy.
Social & Political Philosophy.
Social Sciences.
Sociology & Anthropology.

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Call Number: PZ7.S588

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Table of Contents:
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Notes on Editors
  • 1 Introduction: the Pasts and Futures of Between Facts and Norms - a Critical Exchange
  • John Abromeit, Matthew Dimick and Paul Linden-Retek
  • Part 1: BFN and the Challenge of Neoliberalism and Political Economy
  • 2 Historicizing Habermas's Between Facts and Norms : a Critique from the Perspective of Early Frankfurt School Critical Theory
  • John Abromeit
  • 3 Between Facts and Norms at 30: Habermas, Neoliberalism and Radical Democracy
  • Brian Caterino and Phillip Hansen
  • 4 What's Left? Democratic Theory in Between Facts and Norms after Three Decades
  • William E. Scheuerman
  • 5 How the Legal Form Distorts Public and Private Autonomy
  • Matthew Dimick
  • 6 Why Proceduralism Is Not Enough: Reading Habermas in an Age of Democratic Decline
  • Michael J. Thompson
  • Part 2: BFN and Political (and Legal) Theory
  • 7 Democratic Theory's Existential Crisis: between Discourse and Partisan Empowerment
  • David Ingram
  • 8 Is Democratic Legitimacy Purely Procedural? An Institutional Account of the Legitimacy of Democratic Decision-Making
  • Cristina Lafont
  • 9 In Search of Counter-Tendencies: on the Heuristic Potential of the Public Sphere in Habermas's Between Facts and Norms Rúrion Melo
  • 10 Between Facts and Norms Facing Pseudo-Democracy
  • Isabelle Aubert
  • 11 Policing the Public Sphere
  • Erin R. Pineda
  • 12 A Great Misrecognition: How Between Facts and Norms Was Conflated with (but Resists) the Cosmopolitan Moment in 1990s International Relations Theory
  • Matthew Specter
  • 13 Afterword: the Specter of Popular Sovereignty in Habermas's Between Facts and Norms After Three Decades
  • Seyla Benhabib
  • Index.