English world rights (California UP), Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai People’s Publishing House), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Boitempo)
»Rainer Forst argues for a theory of ›contexts of justice‹ that leads beyond the narrow confines of this debate as it has been understood until now and posits the possibility of a new conception of social and political justice. This book brings refreshing clarity to a complex topic as it provides a...
Contexts of Justice, highly acclaimed when it was published in Germany, provides a significant new intervention into the important debate between communitarianism and liberalism.
»Rainer Forst argues for a theory of ›contexts of justice‹ that leads beyond the narrow confines of this debate as it has been understood until now and posits the possibility of a new conception of social and political justice. This book brings refreshing clarity to a complex topic as it provides a synthesis of traditions and theories that leads to a truly original approach.
Forst makes a four-part distinction to decipher the debate between communitarianism and liberalism. These four parts concern the constitution of the self, the neutrality of law, the ethos of democracy, and the opposition between universalism and contextualism. He shows that a comprehensive theory of justice needs to take these different contexts adequately into account. He discusses recent debates about discursive democracy and feminist critiques of liberalism, and addresses such topics as multiculturalism and civil society.« (book description from the English edition by California University Press)
Persons
Rainer Forst
OTHER PUBLICATIONS

The Noumenal Republic
Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai People’s Publishing House)

Normativity and Power
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)

Justification and Critique
English world rights (Polity), Spanish world rights (Katz), Brazilian Portuguese rights (UNESP), Arabic world rights (Librairie Orientale), Italy (Trauben)

The Right to Justification
English world rights (Columbia UP), Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai People’s Publishing House)

Tolerance in Conflict
English world rights (Cambridge UP), Spanish world rights (Paidos), Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai People’s Publishing House), Korea (The National Research Foundation of Korea)