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Edited by Lasse Thomassen

The Derrida-Habermas Reader

330 pages,  6-3/4 x 9-1/2  © 2006

Cloth $73.00

ISBN: 9780226796833   Published July 2006
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Paper $29.00

ISBN: 9780226796840   Published July 2006
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Acknowledgements
Introduction: Between Deconstruction and Rational Reconstruction
Part I - Philosophy and Literature
Introduction
1. Leveling the Genre Distinction between Philosophy and Literature
Jürgen Habermas
2. Is There a Philosophical Language?
Jacques Derrida
3. Habermas, Derrida and the Functions of Philosophy
Richard Rorty
Part II - Ethics and Politics
Introduction
4. An Allegory of Modernity/Postmodernity: Habermas and Derrida
Richard J. Bernstein
5. Frankfurt Impromptu - Remarks on Derrida and Habermas
Simon Critchley
6. Performative Powerlessness - A Response to Simon Critchley
Jacques Derrida
7. How to Respond to the Ethical Question
Jürgen Habermas
8. Democracy and Difference: Reflections on the Metapolitics of Lyotard and Derrida
Seyla Benhabib
Part III - Identity/Difference: Rights, Tolerance and Political Space
Introduction
9. Dead Rights, Live Futures: On Habermas's Attempt to Reconcile Constitutionalism and Democracy
Bonnie Honig
10. 'A Bizarre, Even Opaque Practice': Habermas on Constitutionalism and Democracy
Lasse Thomassen
11. Religious Tolerance - The Pacemaker for Cultural Rights
Jürgen Habermas
12. Hostipitality
Jacques Derrida
13. Between Deliberation and Deconstruction: The Condition of Post-National Democracy
Martin Morris
Part IV - Beyond the Nation-State: Europe, Cosmopolitanism and International Law
Introduction
14. For a Justice to Come: An Interview with Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida and Lieven De Canter
15. February 15, or What Binds Europeans Together: A Plea for a Common Foreign Policy, Beginning in the Core of Europe
Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida
16. Between Hope and Terror: Habermas and Derrida Plead for the Im/Possible
Martin Beack Matustík
Afterwords
Introduction
17. Honesty of Thought
Jacques Derrida
18. A Last Farewell: Derrida's Enlightening Impact
Jürgen Habermas
Bibliography
Copyright Acknowledgements
Notes on the Contributors
Index

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