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Table of contents :
Contents
Part I: Authority in reasoning
Chapter 1 Vindicating Reason
Chapter 2 Kant: rationality as practical reason
Chapter 3 Kant's conception of public reason
Chapter 4 Constructivism in Rawls and Kant
Chapter 5 Changing constructions
Part II: Authority, autonomy and public reason
Chapter 6 Autonomy: the Emperor's New Clothes
Chapter 7 Self-legislation, autonomy and the form of law
Chapter 8 Autonomy and public reason in Kant, Habermas and Rawls
Part III: Authority in politics
Chapter 9 Orientation in thinking: geographical problems, political solutions
Chapter 10 Kant and Social Contract tradition
Chapter 11 Historical trends and human futures
Chapter 12 Cosmopolitanism then and now
Part IV Authority in interpretation
Chapter 13 Kant on reason and religion I: reasoned hope
Chapter 14 Kant on reason and religion II: reason and interpretation
Index
CONSTRUCTING AUTHORITIES
This collection of essays brings together the central lines of thought in Onora O'Neill's work on Kant's philosophy, developed over many years. Challenging the claim that I