Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 20:47:56 -0800
Subject: HAB: Habermas on Law and Democracy


_Habermas on Law and Democracy_: Critical Exchanges

Rosenfeld, Michel, and Andrew Arato, editors
Universityof California Press, 1998
[vol. 6 in the UCP series: Philosophy, Social Theory, and the Rule of
Law]

Partial text of the U.Cal. Press announcement (at:
http://www-ucpress.berkeley.edu/books/pages/6798.html )

In the first essay, Habermas himself succinctly presents the centerpiece
of his theory: his proceduralist paradigm of law. The following essays
comprise elaborations, criticisms, and further explorations by others of
the most salient issues addressed in his theory. The distinguished group
of contributors --internationally prominent scholars in the fields of
law, philosophy, and social theory--includes many who have been closely
identified with Habermas as well as some of his best-known critics. The
final essay is a thorough and lengthy reply by Habermas, which not only
engages the most important arguments raised in the preceding essays but
also further elaborates and refines some of his own key contributions in
_Between Facts and Norms_.

The editors: Michel Rosenfeld is Professor of Law at the Benjamin N.
Cardozo School of Law and author of _Affirmative Action and Justice_
(1991) and _Just Interpretations: Law between Ethics and Politics_
(California, 1998). Andrew Arato is Professor of Sociology in the
Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research and most recently
co-author of Civil Society (1994).

 ISBN (cloth): 0-520-20466-2  US$ 55.00



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