Todd Hedrick: 2 books
Reconciliation and Reification
Freedom's Semblance and Actuality from Hegel to Contemporary Critical Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
The critical theory tradition has, since its inception, sought to distinguish its perspective on society by maintaining that persons have a deep-seated interest in the free development of their personality--an interest that can only be realized in and through the rational organization of society,...
Rawls and Habermas
Reason, Pluralism, and the Claims of Political Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
This book offers a comprehensive evaluation of the two preeminent post-WWII political philosophers, John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas. Both men question how we can be free and autonomous under coercive law and how we might collectively use our reason to justify exercises of political power. In pluralistic...