Normativity and power : analyzing social orders of justification / created by Rainer Forst and translated by Ciaran Cronin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Normativity and  Power
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Contents
Introduction: Orders of Justification: On the Relationship between Philosophy, Social Theory, and Criticism
I. Reason, Normativity, and  Power
1. Critique of Justifying Reason:Â Explaining Practical Normativity
2. Noumenal Power
II. Justification Narratives and Historical Progress
3. On the Concept of a Justification Narrative
4. The Concept of Progress
III. Religion, Toleration, and  Law 5. Religion and Toleration from the Enlightenment to the Post-â#x80;#x8B;Secular Era: Bayle, Kant, and Habermas6. One Court and Many Cultures: Jurisprudence in Conflict
IV. Justice, Democracy, and Legitimacy
7. Justice after Marx
8. Legitimacy, Democracy, and Justice:Â On the Reflexivity of Normative Orders
V. Transnational Justice
9. Realisms in International Political Theory
10. Transnational Justice and Non-â#x80;#x8B;Domination:Â AÂ Discourse-â#x80;#x8B;Theoretical Approach
Bibliography

In this collection of essays, the first translation into English of the ground-breaking 'Normativität und Macht' (Suhrkamp 2015), Rainer Forst presents a new approach to critical theory. Each essay reflects on the basic principles that guide our normative thinking. Forst's argument goes beyond 'ideal' and 'realist' theories and shows how closely the concepts of normativity and power are interrelated, and how power rests on the capacity to influence, determine, and possibly restrict the space of justifications for others. By combining insights from the disciplines of philosophy, history, and the social sciences, Forst revaluates theories of justice, as well as of power, and provides the tools for a critical theory of relations of justification. Translated from German.