Rainer Forst

Rainer Forst is professor of Political Theory and Philosophy at the Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main and spokesperson of the cluster of excellence »The Formation of Normative Orders«. He has developed a theory of radical justice, human rights and democracy as well as of power and criticism itself.

PUBLICATIONS

Year of Publication: 2021

Rainer ForstYear of Publication: 2021

The Noumenal Republic

All human beings are born with equal dignity and equal rights. This statement seems both normatively irrefutable and empirically inaccurate; reality refutes it every day anew – and thus...

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Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai People’s Publishing House)

Year of Publication: 2015

Rainer ForstYear of Publication: 2015

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...

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English world rights (Oxford UP), Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai People’s Publishing House), Italy (Mimesis)

Year of Publication: 2011

Rainer ForstYear of Publication: 2011

Justification and Critique

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...

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

Year of Publication: 2007

Rainer ForstYear of Publication: 2007

The Right to Justification

Contemporary philosophical pluralism recognizes the inevitability and legitimacy of multiple ethical perspectives and values, making it difficult to isolate the higher-order principles on which to...

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

Year of Publication: 2003

Rainer ForstYear of Publication: 2003

Tolerance in Conflict

The concept of toleration plays a central role in pluralistic societies. It designates a stance which permits conflicts over beliefs and practices to persist while at the same time defusing them,...

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

Year of Publication: 1996

Rainer ForstYear of Publication: 1996

Contexts of Justice

Contexts of Justice, highly acclaimed when it was published in Germany, provides a significant new intervention into the important debate between communitarianism and...

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English world rights (California UP), Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai People’s Publishing House), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Boitempo)