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    Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action.David M. Rasmussen - 1993 - Philosophical Quarterly 43 (173):571.
    This long-awaited book sets out the implications of Habermas's theory of communicative action for moral theory. "Discourse ethics" attempts to reconstruct a moral point of view from which normative claims can be impartially judged. The theory of justice it develops replaces Kant's categorical imperative with a procedure of justification based on reasoned agreement among participants in practical discourse.Habermas connects communicative ethics to the theory of social action via an examination of research in the social psychology of moral and interpersonal development. (...)
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  2. Universalism vs. communitarianism: contemporary debates in ethics.David M. Rasmussen (ed.) - 1990 - Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
    Universalism vs. Communitarianism focuses on the question, raised by recent work in normative philosophy, of whether ethical norms are best derived and justified on the basis of universal or communitarian standards. It is unique in representing both Continental and American points of view and both the older and a younger generation of scholars. The essays introduce the key issues involved in universalism vs. communitarianism and take up ethics in historical perspective, practical reason and ethical responsibility, justification, application and history, and (...)
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  3. Reading Habermas.David M. Rasmussen - 1992 - Studies in Soviet Thought 44 (2):156-158.
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    The Final Foucault.James William Bernauer & David M. Rasmussen (eds.) - 1987 - Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
    His final set of lectures at the College de France, described here by Thomas Flynn, focused on the concept of truth-telling as a moral virtue in the ancient ...
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    Reading Habermas.Georgia Warnke & David M. Rasmussen - 1992 - Philosophical Quarterly 42 (166):129.
    In the past decade the work of Jurgen Habermas has sparked off a series of lively debates over modernity and post-modernity, the nature of language, the interplay of law and politics and the dilemmas of morality. Significantly, these debates unfold in the context of his particular reading of the modern philosophical tradition from the German enlightment to the present period. In this original interpretation, David Rasmussen provides both guide and critique to the later Habermas encountered in the context of the (...)
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    Handbook of critical theory.David M. Rasmussen (ed.) - 1996 - Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell.
    _The Handbook of Critical Theory_ brings together for the first time a detailed examination of the state of critical theory today. The fifteen essays provide analyses of the various orientations which critical theory has taken both historically and systematically in recent years, expositions of the new perspectives which have begun to shape the field, and reflections upon the direction of critical theory.
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  7. Critical theory and philosophy.David M. Rasmussen - 1996 - In Handbook of Critical Theory. Blackwell. pp. 11--38.
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    The republican ideal of freedom as non-domination and the Rojava experiment: ‘States as they are’ or a new socio-political imagination?David M. Rasmussen, Volker Kaul & Alessandro Ferrara - 2016 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 42 (4-5):419-428.
    This article problematizes the republican reliance on contemporary ‘states as they are’ as protectors and guarantors of the republican notion of freedom as non-domination. While the principle of freedom as non-domination constitutes an advance over the liberal principle of freedom as non-interference, its reliance on the national, territorial, legal-technical and extra-economic contemporary state prevents the theoretical uncovering of its full potential. The article argues that to make the most of the principle of freedom as non-domination, a strong Athenian element is (...)
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  9. Advanced capitalism and social theory: Habermas on the problem of legitimation.David M. Rasmussen - 1976 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 3 (4):349-366.
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    Between transparency and surveillance: Politics of the secret.David M. Rasmussen, Volker Kaul & Alessandro Ferrara - 2016 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 42 (4-5):456-464.
    The recent wave of whistleblowers and cyber-dissidents, from Julian Assange to Edward Snowden, has declared war against surveillance. In this context, transparency is presented as an attainable political goal that can be delivered in flesh and bones by spectacular and quasi-messianic moments of disclosure. The thesis of this article is that, despite its progressive promise, the project of releasing classified documents is in line with the Orwellian cold war trope of Big Brother rather than with the complex geography of surveillance (...)
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    Mythic-symbolic language and philosophical anthropology.David M. Rasmussen - 1971 - The Hague,: Martinus Nijhoff.
    This book will attempt to achieve a constructive and positive correla tion between mythic-symbolic language and philosophical anthropolo gy. It is intended as a reflection on the philosophical accomplishment of Paul Ricoeur. The term mythic-symbolic language in this context means the language of the multivalent symbol given in the myth with its psychological and poetic counterparts. The term symbol is not con ceived as an abstract sign as it is used in symbolic logic, but rather as a concrete phenomenon - (...)
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    From the moral to the political: The question of political legitimacy in non-western societies.David M. Rasmussen - 2017 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 43 (4-5):430-441.
    This article focuses on the problem of political legitimacy: first, by finding it to be the driving force in the Rawlsian paradigm moving from a focus on the moral to one on the political; second, with the help of a consideration of multiple-modernities theory, by arguing for a version of political liberalism freed of its western framework; and third, by applying that framework to current debates over the meaning of democracy in a Confucian context.
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    Two cheers for the impunity norm.David M. Rasmussen, Volker Kaul & Alessandro Ferrara - 2016 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 42 (4-5):487-499.
    International criminal law is dedicated to the battle against impunity. However, the concept of impunity lacks clarity. Providing that clarity also reveals challenges for the current state and future prospects of the project of ICL, which this article frames in cosmopolitan terms. The ‘impunity norm’ of ICL is generally presented in a deontic form. It holds that impunity for perpetrators of international crimes is a wrong so profound that states and international bodies have a pro tanto duty to prosecute and (...)
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    Can socialism move beyond political liberalism without accommodating pluralism?David M. Rasmussen - 2019 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 45 (6):689-693.
    In the first part of my essay I argue that the real issue behind Axel Honneth’s interpretation of socialism is the relationship between Marx and Hegel with the fundamental claim that Marx misunders...
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  15. Communicative action and philosophy: Reflections on Habermas theorie Des kommunikativen handelns.David M. Rasmussen - 1982 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 9 (1):1-28.
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    The Democratic Horizon.David M. Rasmussen - 2016 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 42 (7):635-639.
    The Democratic Horizon offers us the project for the renewal of political liberalism through a response to hyperpluralism in the context of an emerging democratic ethos worldwide. While the book reads as a ringing endorsement of Political Liberalism, authored by John Rawls, it goes beyond that project in significant ways. In my view The Democratic Horizon represents something of a tour de force; a truly original contribution for those who recognize the imperative significance of our worldwide confrontation with the fact (...)
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    The Handbook of Critical Theory.David M. Rasmussen (ed.) - 1996 - Cambridge, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell.
    _The Handbook of Critical Theory_ brings together for the first time a detailed examination of the state of critical theory today. The fifteen essays provide analyses of the various orientations which critical theory has taken both historically and systematically in recent years, expositions of the new perspectives which have begun to shape the field, and reflections upon the direction of critical theory.
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  18. Between Autonomy and Sociality.David M. Rasmussen - 1973 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 1 (1):3-45.
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    Defending reasonability: The centrality of reasonability in the later Rawls.David M. Rasmussen - 2004 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 30 (5-6):525-540.
    Against arguments that suggest that Rawls’s notion of reasonability is ‘obscure’ and ‘unclear’ I argue in this essay that the idea of reasonability in the later Rawls can be defended in three ways. First, it can be shown that reasonability is fundamental to the architectonic of the later work. Reasonability, and the subordination of reason to reasonability, is fundamental to the later (post-1980) writings. Second, it can be shown that reasonability is not necessarily a vague term as many have claimed. (...)
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    Digital spaces, public places and communicative power: In defense of deliberative democracy.David M. Rasmussen, Volker Kaul & Alessandro Ferrara - 2016 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 42 (4-5):476-486.
    The deliberative model of politics has recently been criticized for not being very well equipped to conceptualize current developments such as the misinterpretation of political difference, the digital turn, and public protests. A first critique is that this model assumes a conception of public spheres that is too idealistic. A second objection is that it misconceives the relationship between empirical reality and normativity. Third, it is assumed that deliberative democracy offers an antiquated notion of a shared ‘we’ of political actors (...)
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  21. How is valid law possible?: A review of faktizität und geltung by Jürgen Habermas. [REVIEW]David M. Rasmussen - 1994 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 20 (4):21-44.
  22. The symbolism of Marx: From alienation to fetishism.David M. Rasmussen - 1975 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 3 (1):41-55.
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    Jürgen Habermas.David M. Rasmussen & James Swindal (eds.) - 2002 - Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publications.
    This is the first systematic assessment of the work of J[um] rgen Habermas - the key theorist of the later Frankfurt School, whose writing has had a major impact on social theory and sociology. These four volumes comprise the key secondary literature on Habermas. Edited by David Rasmussen and James Swindal, leading commentators on Habermas's work, this will be the standard reference work on one of the canonical theorists of the 20th century. VOLUME ONE: The Foundations of Habermas's Project VOLUME (...)
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    Symbol and interpretation.David M. Rasmussen - 1974 - The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff.
    INTRODUCTION For the past four or five years much of my thinking has centered upon the relationship of symbolic forms to philosophic imagination and ...
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    The right to politics and republican non-domination.David M. Rasmussen, Volker Kaul & Alessandro Ferrara - 2016 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 42 (4-5):465-475.
    Against pronouncements of the recent demise of both democracy and the political, I maintain that there is, rather, something amiss with the process of politicization in which social grievances are translated into matters of political concern and become objects of policy-making. I therefore propose to seek an antidote to the de-politicizing tendencies of our age by reanimating the mechanism that transmits social conflicts and grievances into politics. To that purpose, I formulate the notion of a ‘fundamental right to politics’ as (...)
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    Nature and Politics.David M. Rasmussen - forthcoming - Eco-Ethica.
    My extended project, for which this study of Machiavelli is the beginning, is to examine early modern constitutionalism in order to understand the modes of pluralism that were advocated either intentionally or unintentionally in the construction of the idea of the political that was bequeathed to us. I will consider the thought of two major figures in this historical section of the project, namely, Niccolò Machiavelli and James Madison. The first section will be focused on Machiavelli exclusively. This section will (...)
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    The Pragmatic Turn in Democratic Theory.David M. Rasmussen - 2016 - Eco-Ethica 5:185-195.
    The pragmatic turn away from epistemology could mean a number of things for the definition of the future of political theory. First, political liberalism would mark a distinct departure from comprehensive liberalism that is based solely on epistemological justification of fundamental liberal notions. Second, the pragmatic turn would cause Rawls to modify his long-time emphasis on constructivism, moving from Kantian constructivism to political constructivism, and implicitly adopting more substantive approach. Third, the fact of pluralism would radically open up the question (...)
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    The Kurdish struggle and the crisis of the Turkishness Contract.David M. Rasmussen, Volker Kaul & Alessandro Ferrara - 2016 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 42 (4-5):397-405.
    In this article, inspired by Whiteness Studies, I propose two concepts that allow us to see the question of ethnicity as well as the history of the Turkish Republic through the lens of privilege: Turkishness and the Turkishness Contract. By Turkishness, I mean a patterned but mostly unrecognized relationship between Turkish individuals’ ethnic position and their ways of seeing, hearing, feeling and knowing – as well as not seeing, not hearing, not feeling and not knowing. These ways and states of (...)
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    Legitimacy, sovereignty, solidarity and cosmopolitanism: On the recent work of Jürgen Habermas. [REVIEW]David M. Rasmussen - 2014 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 40 (1):13-18.
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  30. The Emerging Domain of the Political.David M. Rasmussen - 2012 - Eco-Ethica 2:33-42.
    This essay deals with two conceptions of the political; one that entails a clash of civilizations associated with a Schmittian critique of liberalism and a second which envisions the political as an emerging domain. The latter idea can be associated with the later work of John Rawls which separates the comprehensive from the political. I argue that it is this idea when reconstructed in relationship to a theory of multiple modernities that can be appropriated for an emerging notion of global (...)
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  31. Editorial statement.David M. Rasmussen - 1977 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 4 (4):307-307.
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  32. The enlightenment project: After virtue.David M. Rasmussen - 1982 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 9 (3-4):381-394.
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    Business Ethics and Postmodernism.David M. Rasmussen - 1993 - Business Ethics Quarterly 3 (3):271-277.
    “Business Ethics and Postmodernism: A Response” considers the contribution of Ronald Green, David Schmidt, Clarence Walton, RonDuska, and Richard Neilsen to a special issue of Business Ethics Quarterly entitled “Business Ethics and Postmodernism.” This essay poses a fundamental question: to what extent can a position which characterizes itself as postmodern be ethical? The paper argues on philosophical grounds that the debate between modernity and postmodernity is a debate over the very possibility of an ethic. The paper concludes that although Jacque (...)
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    Brill Online Books and Journals.Richard Kearney, László Tengelyi, Patrick L. Bourgeois, David M. Rasmussen, Bernard P. Dauenhauer, David M. Kaplan, Charles E. Scott, Bernard Freydberg, Jamey Findling & Eric C. Sanday - 2007 - Research in Phenomenology 37 (2):271-278.
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    Reviews : comments on twilight of subjectivity.David M. Rasmussen - 1984 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 10 (2):111-114.
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    Introduction.David M. Rasmussen - 1988 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 14 (3-4):237-242.
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    Political liberalism and the good life: Fred Dallmayr, In Search of the Good Life: A Pedagogy for Troubled Times (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2007).David M. Rasmussen - 2009 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 35 (9):1119-1125.
  38. Die Rechtswissenschaft und das Problem der Geltung.David M. Rasmussen - 1995 - In Christoph Demmerling & Thomas Rentsch (eds.), Die Gegenwart der Gerechtigkeit Diskurse Zwischen Recht, Prakischer Philosophie Und Politik. De Gruyter. pp. 79-98.
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    Social & Political Philosophy.David M. Rasmussen - 2001 - Bowling Green State Univ philosophy.
    Twenty-two essays from the 1998 conference in Boston weigh in on current debates in political and social philosophy. Topics include: global justice, intercultural dialogue and human rights, consumerist and cultural hegemony, justice and toleration, the limits of law, liberal and radical democracy, public reason and religious values, communitarianism, collective acceptance and social reality, freedom and equality, violence, aesthetics, and various interpretations of Rawls. Name index only. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
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  40. The Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy.David M. Rasmussen - 2001 - The Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 11:xiii-xxi.
    In a response to John Rawls’s 1993 article entitled, “The Law of Peoples,” Karl-Otto Apel argues that the concept of “overlapping consensus” is not sufficient for a basis or foundation for global justice. Apel makes the claim that when Rawls transfers the problem of justification from a general moral conception of justice to overlapping consensus the “weight of justification” is transferred to a “freestanding” conception of justice. To the extent that it does this, Rawls’s theory fails to show why a (...)
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  41. Gadamer at 100.James Risser, Graeme Nicholson, David M. Rasmussen & John Caputo - 2002 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 28 (5):491-522.
     
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    Conflicted modernity: Toleration as a principle of justice.David M. Rasmussen - 2010 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 36 (3-4):339-352.
    The recognition of conflict puts an end to the idea that cosmopolitanism may be legitimized by a comprehensive doctrine. The article argues that within the limits of a post-secular society, toleration must be conceived as a principle of justice, based on regard for the law, within a society in which not only others’ rights but also other cultures must be respected.
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    Conflicted Modernity.David M. Rasmussen - 2012 - Journal of Philosophical Research 37 (9999):217-222.
    This paper will begin by clarifying the kind of context, which requires toleration. My point of departure is a characterization of modernity that both departs from the classical modern theory of secularization and draws from the current research on multiple modernities. Because of the more or less recent resurgence of religion we can no longer characterize toleration on the basis of a theory of secularization. This will lead to the definition of conflict and tolerance within the confines of a post-secular (...)
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    Reflections on the "end of history" : Politics, identity and civil society.David M. Rasmussen - 1992 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 18 (3-4):235-250.
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    Special section: Lorenzo Simpson's the unfinished project : Affirming modernity.David M. Rasmussen - 2007 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 33 (3):309-317.
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    Reasonability, normativity, and the cosmopolitan imagination: Arendt, Korsgaard, and Rawls.David M. Rasmussen - 2003 - Continental Philosophy Review 36 (2):97-112.
    In this essay I consider the normative implications of the notion of reasonability for the construction of an idea of public reason that is cosmopolitan in scope. First, I consider the argument for the distinction between reason and reasonability in the work of Sibley and Rawls. Second, I evaluate the normative implications of reasonability through a consideration of Korsgaard's recent work. Third, I argue for a notion of reasonability that moves us beyond a Kantian concept of autonomy through a consideration (...)
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    Volume Introduction.David M. Rasmussen - 2001 - The Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 11:13-21.
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    Introduction.T. Peter Kemp & David M. Rasmussen - 1988 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 14 (2):113-114.
  49. Die Möglichkeit globaler Gerechtigkeit.David M. Rasmussen - 2009 - In Axel Honneth & Rainer Forst (eds.), Sozialphilosophie Und Kritik. Suhrkamp. pp. 339--358.
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    Marx: On labor, praxis and instrumental reason.David M. Rasmussen - 1979 - Studies in East European Thought 20 (3):37-52.
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