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Attentive to concrete experiences of injustice that these thinkers tend to overlook, Bankovsky provocatively challenges Rawls' account of civil disobedience, Habermas' defence of rational consensus, and Honneth's ideal of mutual recognition, providing new insights into deconstruction’s relevance for contemporary theories of justice.
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This title brings a deconstructive perspective to theories of justice in the early and later work of Rawls, Habermas and Honneth. Deconstructing influential theories of justice by John Rawls, Jurgen Habermas and Axel Honneth, Miriam Bankovsky explores and critiques the early and later work of these three important liberal theorists. Bankovsky examines the commitments that all these thinkers make to a conception of justice as, in Rawls' words, an 'art of the possible' and the difficulties that such commitments present for their theories. Taking a deconstructive approach, the book argues that such a defence of possibility must be supplemented by an acknowledgment of the ways in which theory ultimately fails to reconcile the conflicting demands of 'justice' - namely, it's demand for responsibility for the other in the particular and for impartiality among all. In so doing, the book draws attention to the 'perfectible' (simultaneously possible and impossible) status of theories of justice, celebrating such perfectibility as the very condition for justice's critical function.
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Contents
Acknowledgements / 1. Perfecting justice: an art of the im/possible / Part I. Justice as fairness: a project to work toward / 2. Rawls and the possibility of 'ideal theory' / 3. Rawls and the 'undecidability' of the original position procedure / Part II. Rational consensus: open to contestation in principle / 4. Habermas and the possibility of popular sovereignty\ 5. Habermas and the perfectibility of deliberative outcomes / Part III. Perfecting recognition relations / 6. Honneth and the possibility of mutual recognition / 7. Honneth and moral progress in the quality of recognition relations / 8. Im/possibility and the cultivation of deconstructive civic attitudes / Bibliography / Index
