Author : Albena Azmanova
Release : 2012-04-17
Genre : Political Science
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis The Scandal of Reason by : Albena Azmanova
Download or read book The Scandal of Reason written by Albena Azmanova. This book was released on 2012-04-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theories of justice struggle to balance vision and practicality. As with Habermas, the more demanding the ideal of justice, the less connected the theory is to political reality; as with Rawls, the more politically realistic the theory, the weaker its normative criteria, rendering the theory unreliable. Brokering a resolution to the?judgment paradox," Albena Azmanova advances a?critical consensus" model of judgment, which serves the normative ideals of a just society without resorting to ideal theory. Tracing the evolution of two major traditions in political philosophy?critical.