Insight and Solidarity: The Discourse Ethics of J?rgen Habermas

by William Rehg

Book Overview

Discourse ethics represents an exciting new development in neo-Kantian moral theory. William Rehg offers an insightful introduction to its complex theorization by its major proponent, Jrgen Habermas, and demonstrates how discourse ethics allows one to overcome the principal criticisms that have been leveled against neo-Kantianism. Addressing both "commun-itarian" critics who argue that universalist conceptions of justice sever moral deliberation from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520082044
• ISBN13: 9780520082045
• Release Date: February 1994
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.