Habermas & Rawls are two heavyweights of social & political philosophy, & undoubtedly the two most written about authors in this field. In this volume, contributors re-examine the Habermas-Rawls dispute with an eye toward the way in which the dispute can cast light on current controversies about political philosophy more broadly.

Adorno notoriously asserted that there is no 'right' life in our current social world. This assertion has contributed to the widespread perception that his philosophy has no practical import or coherent ethics, and he is often accused of being too negative. Fabian Freyenhagen reconstructs and defends Adorno's practical philosophy in response to these charges. He argues that Adorno's deep pessimism about the contemporary social world is coupled with a strong optimism about human potential, and that this optimism explains his negative views about the social world, and his demand that we resist...