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Habermas, Lyotard and the Concept of Justice by Stanley Raffel is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
What is Habermas, Lyotard and the Concept of Justice about?
Habermas' recent work makes a major claim: to be able to determine what is the most rational thing to do. Postmodernists, notably Lyotard, have perhaps successfully belittled this claim as too positivistic. This book does not dispute the validity of the postmodern critique but it is concerned to resist the irrationality which, thus far, seems to coincide with anti-positivism. The author looks at the concept of justice, as one that is both essential to Habermas and Lyotard but is also utilized in
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Stanley Raffel
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Published
- 1992
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780333473238
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Political Science, Philosophy, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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