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Justification and Critique - Towards a Critical Theory of Politics

Name: Justification and Critique - Towards a Critical Theory of Politics
Brand: Polity Press
SKU: 9780745652283
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Autor: Rainer Forst

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Rainer Forst develops a critical theory capable of deciphering the deficits and potentials inherent...

Informacje o książce

Autor

Rainer Forst

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

2013

strony

240

EAN

9780745652283

ISBN

074565228X

Enbook ID

02310653

Wydawca

Polity Press

Waga

522

Wymiary

160 x 237 x 24

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Rainer Forst develops a critical theory capable of deciphering the deficits and potentials inherent in contemporary political reality. This calls for a perspective which is immanent to social and political practices and at the same time transcends them. Forst regards society as a whole as an 'order of justification' comprising complexes of different norms referring to institutions and corresponding practices of justification. The task of a 'critique of relations of justification', therefore, is to analyse such legitimations with regard to their validity and genesis and to explore the social and political asymmetries leading to inequalities in the 'justification power' which enables persons or groups to contest given justifications and to create new ones. Starting from the concept of justification as a basic social practice, Forst develops a theory of political and social justice, human rights and democracy, as well as of power and of critique itself. In so doing, he engages in a critique of a number of contemporary approaches in political philosophy and critical theory. Finally, he also addresses the question of the utopian horizon of social criticism.