Forst Justification and Critique

Towards a Critical Theory of Politics
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-7456-9300-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
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Rainer Forst develops a critical theory capable of deciphering thedeficits and potentials inherent in contemporary political reality.This calls for a perspective which is immanent to social andpolitical practices and at the same time transcends them. Forstregards society as a whole as an 'order ofjustification' comprising complexes of different normsreferring to institutions and corresponding practices ofjustification. The task of a 'critique of relations ofjustification', therefore, is to analyse such legitimationswith regard to their validity and genesis and to explore the socialand political asymmetries leading to inequalities in the'justification power' which enables persons or groupsto contest given justifications and to create new ones.
Starting from the concept of justification as a basic socialpractice, Forst develops a theory of political and social justice,human rights and democracy, as well as of power and of critiqueitself. In so doing, he engages in a critique of a number ofcontemporary approaches in political philosophy and criticaltheory. Finally, he also addresses the question of the utopianhorizon of social criticism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Forst, Rainer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Preface
Introduction: On the Idea of a Critique of Relations of Justification
I. Radical Justice
1 Two Pictures of Justice
2 The Justification of Human Rights and the Basic Right to Justification: A Reflexive Approach
3 The Normative Order of Justice and Peace
II. Justification, Recognition and Critique
4 The Ground of Critique: On the Concept of Human Dignity in Social Orders of Justification
5 First Things First: Redistribution, Recognition and Justification
6 'To Tolerate Means to Insult': Toleration, Recognition and Emancipation
III. Beyond Justice
7 The Injustice of Justice: Normative Dialectics According to Ibsen, Cavell and Adorno
8 Republicanism of Fear and of Redemption: On the Topicality of Hannah Arendt's Political Theory
9 Utopia and Irony: On the Normativity of a Political Philosophy of 'No-where'
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rainer Forst is Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy at theJohann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, and directorof the prestigious 'Cluster of Excellence' programmefunded by the German Research Foundation.