The right to justification : elements of a constructivist theory of justice / Rainer Forst ; translated by Jeffrey Flynn.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-351).

Introduction: The foundation of justice -- Foundations: practical reason, morality, and justice. Practical reason and justifying reasons: on the foundation of morality -- Moral autonomy and the autonomy of morality: toward a theory of normativity after Kant -- Ethics and morality -- The justification of justice: Rawls's political liberalism and Habermas's discourse theory in dialogue -- Political and social justice. Political liberty: integrating five conceptions of autonomy -- A critical theory of multicultural toleration -- The rule of reasons: three models of deliberative democracy -- Social justice, justification, and power Human rights and transnational justice. The basic right to justification: toward a constructivist conception of human rights -- Constructions of transnational justice: comparing John Rawls's The Law of Peoples and Otfried Höffe's Democracy in an Age of Globalisation -- Justice, morality, and power in the global context -- Toward a critical theory of transnational justice.

Translated from the German.