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1 online resource (xiv, 235 pages) |
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New directions in critical theory |
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New directions in critical theory.
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Judgment as a paradigm -- Making sense of the exemplary -- The exemplary and the public realm: reconstructing the normativity of the reasonable -- Exemplifying the worst: facing up to radical evil -- Political republicanism and the force of the example -- Exemplarity and human rights -- Enforcing human rights between Westphalia and Cosmopolis -- Europe as a special area for human hope -- Religion within the limits of reasonableness |
| Summary |
During the twentieth century, the view that assertions and norms are valid insofar as they respond to principles independent of all local and temporal contexts came under attack from two perspectives: the partiality of translation and the intersubjective constitution of the self, understood as responsive to recognition. Defenses of universalism have by and large taken the form of a thinning out of substantive universalism into various forms of proceduralism. Alessandro Ferrara instead launches an entirely different strategy for transcending the particularity of context without co |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-226) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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In English |
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Print version record |
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| Subject |
Justice.
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Judgment (Ethics)
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Political science -- Philosophy.
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08.45 political philosophy.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Political.
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Judgment (Ethics)
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Justice
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Political science -- Philosophy
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Urteil Logik
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Normativität
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Paradigma
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Vernunft
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Judgement.
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Political philosophy.
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Justice.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2007047003 |
| ISBN |
9780231511926 |
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0231511922 |
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