Deprovincializing Habermas: Global Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780367350802 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 276 str.

Bailey, Tom

Opis

This book provides a rich and systematic engagement with Jürgen Habermas’ political theory from critical perspectives outside its Western locus. The chapters added to the second edition explore Habermas’ own recent response to the charge of ‘provincialism’.

Spis treści

Foreword by Maeve Cooke. Editor's Preface to the Second Edition. Introduction. Tom Bailey Part I. Democratizing 1. Back to Kant? The Democratic Deficits in Habermas' Global Constitutionalism Lars Rensmann 2. Democratizing International Law: A Republican Reading of Habermas' Cosmopolitan Project James Bohman 3. Feminist Solidarity in India: Communitarian Challenges and Postnational Prospects Kanchana Mahadevan 4. Deliberation without Democracy?: Reflections on Habermas, Mini-publics and China William Smith Part II. Decolonizing 5. Defending Habermas against Eurocentrism: Latin America and Mignolo’s Decolonial Challenge Raymond Morrow 6. Care, Power and Deconstructive Postcolonialism: Reformulating the Habermasian Response Richard Ganis 7. From Communicative Modernity to Modernities in Tension John Rundell Part III. Desecularizing 8. What is Living and What is Dead in Habermas’ Secularization Hypothesis? Kevin W. Gray 9. Reason and Li Xing: A Chinese Solution to Habermas’ Problem of Moral Motivation Tong Shijun 10. Radicalizing the Postsecular Thesis, Provincializing Habermas Péter Losonczi Part IV Deprovincializing 11. Can Postmetaphysical Reason Escape its Provincial Roots? Simone Chambers 12. Decentering Eurocentrism Through Dialogue Jeffrey Flynn

O autorze

Tom Bailey is Associate Professor of Philosophy at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy. His research focuses on contemporary political philosophy, ethics and the history of modern philosophy. He has published various articles in these areas, and edited Contestatory Cosmopolitanism (2016/2017) and co-edited Rawls and Religion (2014).