Perfecting Justice in Rawls, Habermas and Honneth

Miriam Bankovsky lectures in politics at La Trobe University, Australia. She is the co-editor, with Alice Le Goff, of Recognition theory and contemporary French moral and political philosophy: Reopening the dialogue (2012).

• Acknowledgements \ 1. Perfecting justice: an art of the im/possible \ Part I. Justice as fairness: a project to pursue \ 2. Rawls and the possibility of 'ideal theory' \ 3. Rawls and the 'undecidability' of the original position procedure \ Part II. Rational consensus: open to contestation in principle \ 4. Habermas and the possibility of popular sovereignty \ 5. Habermas and the perfectibility of deliberative outcomes \ Part III. Perfecting recognition relations \ 6. Honneth and the possibility of mutual recognition \ 7. Honneth and moral progress in the quality of recognition relations \ 8. Im/possibility and the cultivation of deconstructive civic attitudes \ Bibliography \ Index

'In this clearly written and carefully argued book, Miriam Bankovsky brings Jacques Derrida's deconstruction to bear on Rawls, Habermas and Honneth to develop a deconstructive perspective on justice that does not simply deny the possibility of justice. The book will be hard to ignore for anyone interested in the relationship between these thinkers.'