Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments v
3. Contents vii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Freestanding Political Philosophy and the Descriptivist Critique of Rawls 17
7. 2. The Rawlsian Apparatus of Justification 34
8. 3. Rawls between Metaphysics and Proceduralism 61
9. 4. Procedure and Substance, Construction and Reconstruction 81
10. 5. Discourse Theory and the Constitutional Democratic State 103
11. 6. Proceduralism and Functionalism in Habermas’s Theory of Law and Democracy 125
12. 7. Rawls and the Critique of Constitutional Contractarianism 149
13. 8. Habermasian Constitutional Theory 166
14. 9. Conclusion: Idealizations and Power 184
15. Notes 197
16. Works Cited 225
17. Index 237