English world rights (Polity), Spanish world rights (Katz), Brazilian Portuguese rights (UNESP), Arabic world rights (Librairie Orientale), Italy (Trauben)
Rainer Forst develops a critical theory capable of deciphering the deficits and potentials inherent in contemporary political reality. This calls for a perspective which is immanent to social and political practices and at the same time transcends them. Forst regards society as a whole as an »order of justification« comprising complexes of different norms referring to institutions and corresponding practices of justification.
The task of a »critique of relations of justification«, therefore, is to analyse such legitimations with regard to their validity and genesis and to explore the social and political asymmetries leading to inequalities in the »justification power« which enables persons or groups to contest given justifications and to create new ones.
Starting from the concept of justification as a basic social practice, Forst develops a theory of political and social justice, human rights and democracy, as well as of power and of critique itself. In so doing, he engages in a critique of a number of contemporary approaches in political philosophy and critical theory. Finally, he also addresses the question of the utopian horizon of social criticism. (book description from the upcoming English edition by Polity Press)
Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai People’s Publishing House)
People are justificatory beings; they orient themselves according to reasons. The rules and institutions with which they comply are based on historically formed justification-narratives and...
English world rights (Oxford UP), Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai People’s Publishing House), Italy (Mimesis)
English world rights (Columbia UP), Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai People’s Publishing House)
English world rights (Cambridge UP), Spanish world rights (Paidos), Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai People’s Publishing House), Korea (The National Research Foundation of Korea)
English world rights (California UP), Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai People’s Publishing House), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Boitempo)