Between Facts and Norms

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Between Facts and Norms is a major work of political and legal philosophy by Jürgen Habermas that develops a theory of deliberative democracy and the legitimacy of law through communicative rationality.

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instanceOf book
work of legal philosophy
work of political philosophy
arguesThat democratic procedures can ground the validity of legal norms
law mediates between social facts and normative validity claims
the legitimacy of law depends on discursive processes of opinion- and will-formation
author Jürgen Habermas NERFINISHED
centralConcept co-originality of private and public autonomy
discourse theory of law and democracy
procedural legitimacy
public sphere
system and lifeworld
field legal philosophy
political philosophy
social theory
firstPublishedIn Germany NERFINISHED
follows The Theory of Communicative Action
hasPart theory of democracy
theory of law
theory of rights
theory of the public sphere
influenced constitutional theory
critical legal theory
normative political theory
theory of deliberative democracy
influencedBy pragmatism
surface form: American pragmatism

G. W. F. Hegel
Hannah Arendt
Immanuel Kant
Karl Marx
Max Weber
mainTopic communicative rationality
constitutionalism
deliberative democracy
democratic theory
discourse theory of law
legitimacy of law
rule of law
notableFor development of discourse theory of law
integration of legal theory and democratic theory
systematic account of deliberative democracy
originalLanguage German
originalTitle Faktizität und Geltung
partOf Jürgen Habermas's political theory
philosophicalProblem relationship between facts and norms in modern societies
relationship between law and democracy
philosophicalTradition critical theory
discourse ethics
publicationYear 1992
timePeriodAddressed modern constitutional democracies

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