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[Book Review] TODD HEDRICK, Rawls and Habermas: Reason, Pluralism and the Claims of Political Philosophy. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010, pp. x รพ 242, ISBN 9780804770774, $65 (hbk).


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First Paragraph: The irrationality of totalitarianism, as manifested throughout the 20th century, reinforced an old liberal desideratum. Reason, liberal theorists argue, requires political institutions to affirm what totalitarianism ruthlessly opposed, that is, the freedom of thought, belief and religion. In fact, political institutions should show equal respect towards different world views held by individuals falling under their authority. But the plurality of world views, whose protection is grounded on an appeal to reason, often entails a plurality of opposing views on reason itself. It is this complexity that we find allusively encapsulated in the subtitle of Todd Hedrickโ€™s monograph Reason, Pluralism and the Claims of Political Philosophy. This is a fascinating topic that would probably be discouragingly broad, had it not been narrowed down through Hedrickโ€™s focus on its treatment by Rawls and Habermas, as the bookโ€™s main title suggests.

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