Rainer Forst
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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.
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
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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...
Rights sold to:
English world rights (California UP), Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai People’s Publishing House), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Boitempo)