Between facts and norms : Contributions to a discourse theory of law and democracy /

Habermas, Júrgen, 1929-

Between facts and norms : Contributions to a discourse theory of law and democracy / Jürgen Habermas; translated by William Rehg - Cambridge, Massachusetts : Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1996 - xliii, 631 p. / 23. - Studies in contemporary German social thought .

Law as a category of social mediation between facts and norms, 1. -- The sociology of law versus the philosophy of justice, 42. -- Reconstructive approach to law I : The system of rights, 82. -- A reconstructive approach to law II : The principles of the constitutional State, 132. -- The indeterminacy of law and the rationality of adjudication, 194. -- Judiciary and legislature : On the role and legitimacy of constitutional adjudication, 238. -- Deliberative politics : A procedural concept of democracy, 287. -- Civil society and the political public sphere, 329. -- Paradigms of law, 388

K 372 H114b 1996