Democracy, Power, and Legitimacy

Over his long and fruitful scholarly life, Jürgen Habermas has patiently laboured to diagnose the limitations and free the potential of the project of modernity – the pursuit of the ideal of free society by rational subjects. Omid A. Payrow Shabani here analyses the development of Habermas''s critical philosophy in its pursuit of a theory of justice that can address the ethico-political concerns o...