Bringing Discursive Ideals to Legal Facts: On Baxter on Habermas

Philosophy and Social Criticism (Sage), V. 40, #2: 2014, Forthcoming

8 Pages Posted: 29 Oct 2013

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Christopher F. Zurn

University of Massachusetts Boston - Department of Philosophy

Date Written: July 28, 2012

Abstract

This article critically engages with Hugh Baxter's important book on Habermas's theories of law and democracy, pointing to many of its manifest virtues and raising questions about some of its central claims and arguments.

Keywords: Law, Democracy, Adjudication, Common Law, Rights, Habermas, Baxter

Suggested Citation

Zurn, Christopher F., Bringing Discursive Ideals to Legal Facts: On Baxter on Habermas (July 28, 2012). Philosophy and Social Criticism (Sage), V. 40, #2: 2014, Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2346343

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