Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy. (book reviews)

Seyla Benhabib, Harvard University

Juergen Habermas, postwar Europe's leading social and political philosopher, started his career more than three decades ago with a series of essays that critically examined the ideals of the bourgeois democratic revolutions of 1776 and 1789 from the perspective of Marxist class theory. Translated into English as Theory and Practice (trans. John Viertel, 1973), these essays were followed in 1962 by a landmark study, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society (English trans. T. Burger and F. ...

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