| Normativity and Power: Analyzing Social Orders of Justification Contributor(s): Forst, Rainer (Author) |
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ISBN: 0198798873 ISBN-13: 9780198798873 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $55.10 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Jurisprudence - Political Science - Philosophy | Political |
| Dewey: 190 |
| LCCN: 2017947321 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" (1.15 lbs) 202 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Humans are justificatory beings - they offer, demand, and require justifications. The rules and institutions they follow rest on justification narratives that have evolved over time and, taken together, constitute a dynamic and tension-laden normative order. In this collection of essays, the first translation into English of the ground-breaking Normativitat und Macht (Suhrkamp 2015), Rainer Forst presents a new approach to critical theory. Each essay reflects on the basic principles that guide our normative thinking. Forst's argument goes beyond 'ideal' and 'realist' theories and shows how closely the concepts of normativity and power are interrelated, and how power rests on the capacity to influence, determine, and possibly restrict the space of justifications for others. By combining insights from the disciplines of philosophy, history, and the social sciences, Forst revaluates theories of justice, as well as of power, and provides the tools for a critical theory of relations of justification. |