Normativity and Power: Analyzing Social Orders of Justification

by Rainer Forst

Humans are justificatory beings - they offer, demand, and require justifications. The rules and institutions they follow rest on justification narratives that have evolved over time and, taken together, constitute a dynamic and tension-laden normative order.

In this collection of essays, the first translation into English of the ground-breaking Normativitat und Macht (Suhrkamp 2015), Rainer Forst presents a new approach to critical theory...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198798873
• ISBN13: 9780198798873
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"