edited by Ciaran Cronin and Pablo De Greiff Since its appearance in                  English translation in 1996, J??rgen Habermas's Between Facts and Norms has                  become the focus of a productive dialogue between German and Anglo-American legal                  and political theorists. The present volume contains ten essays that provide an                  overview of Habermas's political thought since the original appearance of Between                  Facts and Norms in 1992 and extend his model of deliberative democracy in novel ways                  to issues untreated in the earlier work.Habermas's theory of democracy has at least                  three features that set it apart from competing positions. First, it combines a                  concern with questions of normative justification with an empirical analysis of the                  social conditions necessary for the realization of democratic institutions. Second,                  at the heart of his model is the assertion of an internal relationship between                  liberalism and democracy. On this account, the rights of the individual that are                  central to liberalism can be guaranteed only within a constitutional framework that                  at the same time fosters democratic rights of political participation through the                  public sphere. Finally, Habermas defends a conception of universal human rights that                  is not only sensitive to cultural differences but also calls for legal and political                  institutions that facilitate the cultivation of cultural and religious identities                  within pluralistic societies.These essays demonstrate the extraordinary power of                  Habermas's theory of democracy through a further engagement with Rawls's political                  liberalism and through original contributions to current debates over nationalism,                  multiculturalism, and the viability of supranational political                  institutions.

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