00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000009632 20221102035148 0010-0520009632 221102################|##########|#eng## 978-0-674-01715-3 eng 342.73 342.73 RUB r Rubenfeld, Jed Revolution by Judiciary : The Structure of American Constitutional Law / Jed Rubenfeld Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005 241 p. ; 25 cm. This book offers a comprehensive evaluation of the two preeminent post-WWII political philosophers, John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas. Both men question how we can be free and autonomous under coercive law and how we might collectively use our reason to justify exercises of political power. In pluralistic modern democracies, citizens cannot be expected to agree about social norms on the basis of common allegiance to comprehensive metaphysical or religious doctrines concerning persons or society, and both philosophers thus engage fundamental questions about how a normatively binding framework for the public use of reason might be possible and justifiable. Hedrick explores the notion of reasonableness underwriting Rawls s political liberalism and the theory of communicative rationality that sustains Habermas s procedural conception of the democratic constitutional state. His book challenges the Rawlsianism prevalent in the Anglo-American world today while defending Habermas s often poorly understood theory as a superior alternative. Constitutional law;United States.Law;United States ;Interpretation and construction. Judicial process --United States. 22468/MKRI-P/XI-2011 22467/MKRI-P/XI-2011 22467/MKRI-P/XI-2011 22468/MKRI-P/XI-2011 22468/MKRI-P/XI-2011 22467/MKRI-P/XI-2011