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Normativity and Power

By Rainer Forst

Normativity and Power

By Rainer Forst

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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 thesocial sciences, Forst revaluates theories of justice, as well as of power, and provides the tools for a critical theory of relations of justification.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
202
Release Date:
2018-01-13
Publication Date:
2018-01-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press(UK)
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0198798873
ISBN13:
9780198798873
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[email protected]
Weight:
473 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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