Description J rgen Habermas and John Rawls are perhaps the two most renowned and influential figures in social and political philosophy of the second half of the twentieth century.
Quarreling over the merits of each other\'s accounts of the shape and meaning of democracy and legitimacy in a contemporary society, they also revealed how great thinkers working in different traditions read--and misread--one.
In the 1990s, they had a famous exchange in the Journal of Philosophy .
Description J rgen Habermas and John Rawls are perhaps the two most renowned and influential figures in social and political philosophy of the second half of the twentieth century