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Netherlands journal of legal philosophy
About: Netherlands journal of legal philosophy is an academic journal. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Presumption of innocence & Democracy. Over the lifetime, 181 publication(s) have been published receiving 925 citation(s).
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TL;DR: The Justification of Basic Rights: A Discourse-Theoretical Approach as discussed by the authors is a special issue with the same name, which centers around the key note paper of Rainer Forst.
Abstract: This article is the introduction of the special issue with the same name, which centers around the key note paper of Rainer Forst, "The Justification of Basic Rights. A Discourse-Theorethical Approach".
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TL;DR: Benhabib and Habermas as discussed by the authors examine the promise and limits of these various efforts by way of a third paradox: Rousseau's paradox of politics, whose many workings are traced through Book II, Chapter 7 of the Social Contract.
Abstract: Deliberative democratic theorists (in this essay, Seyla Benhabib and Jurgen Habermas) seek to resolve, manage, or transcend paradoxes of democratic legitimation or constitutional democracy. Other democratic theorists, such as Chantal Mouffe, embrace such paradoxes and affirm their irreducibility. Deliberativists call that position “decisionism.” This essay examines the promise and limits of these various efforts by way of a third paradox: Rousseau's paradox of politics, whose many workings are traced through Book II, Chapter 7 of the Social Contract. This last paradox cannot be resolved, transcended, managed, or even affirmed as an irreducible binary conflict. The paradox of politics names not a clash between two logics or norms but a vicious circle of chicken-and-egg (which comes first—good people or good law?). It has the happy effect of reorienting democratic theory: toward the material conditions of political practice, the unavoidable will of the people who are also always a multitude, and the not only regulative but also productive powers of law.
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