James L. Marsh is professor of philosophy at Fordham University in Bronx, New York. He is the author of several books such as Modernity and Its Discontents and Critique, Action, and Liberation.

• Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 Toward a Critique of Habermas's Philosophy of LawChapter 3 The Tension between Facticity and ValidityChapter 4 On Mediating Private and Public Autonomy: The Genesis of RightsChapter 5 The Genesis of the StateChapter 6 Law and JurisprudenceChapter 7 Deliberative Politics and Administrative Social PowerChapter 8 The Public Sphere, Civil Society, and the Rule of CapitalChapter 9 The Different Paradigms of Law and the Difference They MakeChapter 10 The Achievement and Limits of Habermas's Philosophy of Law

Professor Marsh, a self-styled 'disillusioned Habermasian,' offers a careful, somber 'reality check' to the comparatively favorable vision of contemporary society that Habermas presents in his significant work, Between Facts and Norms. At the sametime, the ultimate, and in fact quite successful, aim of Marsh's analysis is the positive one of reworking Habermas' own best insights back in the direction of a genuinely critical theory of modern society....

James L. Marsh is professor of philosophy at Fordham University in Bronx, New York. He is the author of several books such as Modernity and Its Discontents and Critique, Action, and Liberation.

• Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 Toward a Critique of Habermas's Philosophy of LawChapter 3 The Tension between Facticity and ValidityChapter 4 On Mediating Private and Public Autonomy: The Genesis of RightsChapter 5 The Genesis of the StateChapter 6 Law and JurisprudenceChapter 7 Deliberative Politics and Administrative Social PowerChapter 8 The Public Sphere, Civil Society, and the Rule of CapitalChapter 9 The Different Paradigms of Law and the Difference They MakeChapter 10 The Achievement and Limits of Habermas's Philosophy of Law

Professor Marsh, a self-styled 'disillusioned Habermasian,' offers a careful, somber 'reality check' to the comparatively favorable vision of contemporary society that Habermas presents in his significant work, Between Facts and Norms. At the sametime, the ultimate, and in fact quite successful, aim of Marsh's analysis is the positive one of reworking Habermas' own best insights back in the direction of a genuinely critical theory of modern society....

James L. Marsh is professor of philosophy at Fordham University in Bronx, New York. He is the author of several books such as Modernity and Its Discontents and Critique, Action, and Liberation.

• Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 Toward a Critique of Habermas's Philosophy of LawChapter 3 The Tension between Facticity and ValidityChapter 4 On Mediating Private and Public Autonomy: The Genesis of RightsChapter 5 The Genesis of the StateChapter 6 Law and JurisprudenceChapter 7 Deliberative Politics and Administrative Social PowerChapter 8 The Public Sphere, Civil Society, and the Rule of CapitalChapter 9 The Different Paradigms of Law and the Difference They MakeChapter 10 The Achievement and Limits of Habermas's Philosophy of Law

Professor Marsh, a self-styled 'disillusioned Habermasian,' offers a careful, somber 'reality check' to the comparatively favorable vision of contemporary society that Habermas presents in his significant work, Between Facts and Norms. At the sametime, the ultimate, and in fact quite successful, aim of Marsh's analysis is the positive one of reworking Habermas' own best insights back in the direction of a genuinely critical theory of modern society....