Description
| Product ID: | 9780198798873 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Normativity and Power |
| Subtitle: | Analyzing Social Orders of Justification |
| Authors: | Author: Rainer Forst |
| Page Count: | 202 |
| Subjects: | Social and political philosophy, Social & political philosophy, Political science and theory, Methods, theory and philosophy of law, Political science & theory, Jurisprudence & philosophy of law |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The English translation of Forst's Normativität und Macht (2015), this book continues to develop the author's account of the nature of social orders and their justifications by re-evaluating fundamental philosophical concepts such as 'reason' and 'power'. Humans are justificatory beingsthey 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 Normativität 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 re-evaluates theories of justice, as well as of power, and provides the tools for a critical theory of relations of justification. |
| Imprint Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-10-19 |
