The Noumenal Republic

Rainer Forst is Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy and Director of the Research Center Normative Orders at Goethe University in Frankfurt. His books include Contexts of Justice, The Right to Justification, Toleration in Conflict, Justification and Critique and Normativity and Power. In 2012, he received the Leibniz Prize, the highest honor awarded to researchers in Germany.

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Introduction: Between Two Worlds: Critical Constructivism after Kant

I. Autonomy, Progress and Solidarity: Basic Questions of Social Philosophy
1. Noumenal Alienation: Rousseau, Kant and Marx on the Dialectics of Self-Determination
2. The Justification of Progress and the Progress of Justification
3. The Rule of Unreason: Analyzing (Anti-)Democratic Regression
4. Solidarity: Concept, Conceptions and Contexts
5. Social Cohesion: On the Analysis of a Difficult Concept

II. Justice, Rights and Non-Domination in a New Key: Critical Political Theory
6. Normativity and Reality: Toward a Critical and Realistic Theory of Politics
7. The Point and Ground of Human Rights: A Kantian Constructivist View
8. A Critical Theory of Transnational (In-)Justice: Realistic in the Right Way
9. Structural Injustice with a Name, Structural Domination without a Face?
10. Kantian Republicanism versus the Neo-Republican Machine: The Meaning and Practice of Political Autonomy

III. Debates: Political Liberalism, Luck Egalitarianism, Contractualism and Discourse Ethics
11. Political Liberalism: A Kantian View
12. The Point of Justice: On the Paradigmatic Incompatibility between Rawlsian “Justice as Fairness” and Luck Egalitarianism
13. Justification Fundamentalism: A Discourse-Theoretical Interpretation of Scanlon’s Contractualism
14. The Autonomy of Autonomy: On Jürgen Habermas’s Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie

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