The Habermas-Rawls Debate
ISBN: 9780231549011
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Habermas Jèurgen; Rawls John 1921–2002; Political science -- Philosophy;

In the 1990s, Jürgen Habermas and John Rawls had a famous exchange in the Journal of Philosophy . In this book, James Gordon Finlayson examines the Habermas-Rawls debate in context and considers its wider implications.


James Gordon Finlayson is reader in philosophy and director of the Centre for Social and Political Thought at the University of Sussex. He is the author of numerous articles on post- Kantian philosophy and critical theory, as well as Habermas: A Very Short Introduction (2005), and the editor of Habermas and Rawls: Disputing the Political (2011).
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