The Scandal of Reason: A Critical Theory of Political Judgment (New Directions in Critical Theory)
By Albena Azmanova.
Description
Theories of justice are haunted by a paradox: the more ambitious the theory of justice, the less applicable and useful the model is to political practice; yet the more politically realistic the theory, the weaker its moral ambition, rendering it unsound and equally useless. Brokering a resolution to this "judgment paradox," Albena Azmanova advances a "critical consensus model" of judgment that serves the normative ideals of a just society without the help of ideal theory. Tracing the evolution of two major traditions in political philosophy―critical theory and philosophi...
ISBN(s)
0231153805, 9780231153805
