Habermas' recent work makes a major claim: to be able to determine what is the most rational thing to do. Postmodernists, notably Lyotard, have perhaps successfully belittled this claim as too positivistic. This book does not dispute the validity of the postmodern critique but it is concerned to resist the irrationality which, thus far, seems to coincide with anti-positivism. The author looks at the concept of justice, as one that is both essential to Habermas and Lyotard but is also utilized in their work only in constricted and unimaginative ways.

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University of Edinburgh, UK

Stanley Raffel

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STANLEY RAFFEL

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Book Title: Habermas, Lyotard and the Concept of Justice
Authors: Stanley Raffel
Series Title: Edinburgh Studies in Culture and Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230379688
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1992
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-47323-8Published: 11 February 1992
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-37968-8Published: 11 February 1992
Series ISSN: 2947-0757
Series E-ISSN: 2947-0765
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 122
Topics: Political Sociology, Political Science and International Relations, general, Ethics, Sociology, general

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Table of contents (4 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

Habermas

Lyotard

Justice

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