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Author Habermas, Jürgen.

Title Between facts and norms : contributions to a discourse theory of law and democracy / Jürgen Habermas ; translated by William Rehg
Published Cambridge : Polity Press, 1996

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 MELB  KA 60 Hab/Fug  AVAILABLE
Description xliii, 631 pages ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Law as a Category of Social Mediation between Facts and Norms -- 2. The Sociology of Law versus the Philosophy of Justice -- 3. A Reconstructive Approach to Law I: The System of Rights -- 4. A Reconstructive Approach to Law II: The Principles of the Constitutional State -- 5. The Indeterminacy of Law and the Rationality of Adjudication -- 6. Judiciary and Legislature: On the Role and Legitimacy of Constitutional Adjudication -- 7. Deliberative Politics: A Procedural Concept of Democracy -- 8. Civil Society and the Political Public Sphere -- 9. Paradigms of Law -- Appendix I. Popular Sovereignty as Procedure (1988) -- Appendix II. Citizenship and National Identity (1990)
Summary [...] "Habermas works out the legal and political implications of his thoeretical approach, bringing to fruition the project announced more than three decades ago in The Structural transformation of the public sphere" -- dust jacket
Notes Includes index
Translation of: Faktizität und Geltung : Beiträge zur Diskurstheorie des Rechts und des demokratischen Rechtsstaats
Bibliography Bibliography: [571]-593
Notes Translation of: Faktizitat und Geltung
Subject Democracy -- Social aspects.
Rule of law -- Social aspects.
Sociological jurisprudence.
Author Habermas, Jürgen. Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit
Rehg, William.
ISBN 0745612296
Other Titles Faktizität und Geltung. English
Contributions to a discourse theory of law and democracy
Faktizitat und Geltung