Deprovincializing Habermas
Global Perspectives
Ethics, Human Rights and Global Political Thought Series

This volume engages with Jürgen Habermas?s political theory from critical perspectives beyond its Western European origins. In particular, it explores the challenges of democratizing, decolonizing and desecularizing his theory for global contexts, and proposes ?deprovincializing? reformulations for contemporary political and social issues.

Foreword.IntroductionTom BaileyPart I.Democratizing 1. Back to Kant? The Democratic Deficits in Habermas' Global Constitutionalism Lars Rensmann2. Democratizing International Law: A Republican Reading of Habermas' Cosmopolitan Project James Bohman3. Feminist Solidarity in India: Communitarian Challenges and Postnational Prospects Kanchana Mahadevan4. Deliberation without Democracy? Reflections on Habermas, Mini-publics and China William SmithPartII. Decolonizing5. Defending Habermas against Eurocentrism: Latin America and Mignolo’s Decolonial Challenge Raymond Morrow6. Care, Power and Deconstructive Postcolonialism: Reformulating the Habermasian Response Richard Ganis7. From Communicative Modernity to Modernities in Tension John RundellPart III. Desecularizing8. What is Living and What is Dead in Habermas’ Secularization Hypothesis? Kevin W. Gray9. Reason and Li Xing: A Chinese Solution to Habermas’ Problem of Moral Motivation Tong Shijun10. Radicalizing the Post-secular Thesis, Provincializing Habermas Péter Losonczi. About the Editor. Notes on Contributors. Index

Tom Bailey is Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, John Cabot University, Rome.