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Justice and Judgement
The Rise and the Prospect of the Judgement Model in Contemporary Political Philosophy
- Alessandro Ferrara - University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy
July 1999 | 272 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
Justice and Judgement is a comprehensive introduction to theories of judgement in contemporary political and moral philosophy. The book offers a critical examination of judgement in the recent works of Rawls, Habermas, Ackerman, Michelman and Dworkin, including an historical overview of the judgement model in contemporary political philosophy; the function of the constitution; and deliberative democracy. The book concludes with a discussion of universalism and contemporary liberalism and the judgement view of justice.
Introduction
PART ONE: THE RISE OF THE JUDGEMENT MODEL IN CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
A Reasonable View of the Reasonable
Democracy, Justice and Discourse
An (Almost) Aesthetic Model of Normative Validity
From Fictive Dialogue to Situated Judgement
The Judgement View of Higher Lawmaking
PART TWO: COMPLETING THE TURN: THE PROSPECT FOR THE JUDGEMENT MODEL
Traces of Modern Universilism in Contemporary Liberalism
The Judgement View of Justice
Impartiality without Principles and the Ideal of Equal Respect
