Free Public Reason: Making It Up as We Go Hardcover - 1996
by Fred D'Agostino
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Free Public Reason examines the idea of public justification, stressing its importance but also questioning the coherence of the concept itself. Although public justification is employed in the work of theorists such as John Rawls, Jeremy Waldron, Thomas Nagel, and others, it has received little attention on its own as a philosophical concept. D'Agostino shows that the ideal behind this concept is constituted by many, sometimes competing, demands and that no formal way of weighing these demands can be identified. The notion of public justification itself is thus shown to be contestable. In demonstrating this, D'Agostino questions many current political theories that rely on this concept. Having broken down the foundations of public justification, D'Agostino then draws on the ideas of Dworkin and Kuhn as well as insights from feminism and post-modernism to offer an alternative model of how a workable consensus on its meaning might be reached through the interactions of a community of interpreters or delegates at a constitutional convention.
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- Title Free Public Reason: Making It Up as We Go
- Author Fred D'Agostino
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition Fi
- Pages 216
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY
- Date 1996-01-04
- ISBN 9780195097610 / 0195097610
- Weight 1.17 lbs (0.53 kg)
- Dimensions 9.38 x 6.36 x 0.76 in (23.83 x 16.15 x 1.93 cm)
- Reading level 1670
- Library of Congress subjects Political science - Philosophy, Reason
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95006838
- Dewey Decimal Code 320.01
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