Rawls and Habermas: Reason, Pluralism, and the Claims of Political Philosophy

This book offers a comprehensive evaluation of the two preeminent political philosophers of the post-WWII era, John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas. Though they work in the Anglo-American and European critical theory traditions, respectively, what is at stake in both men's political thought are the intertwined questions of how we can be free and autonomous under coercive law and how we might collectively use our reason to justify exercises of political power to one another.

In pluralistic modern d...