Rawls and Me, by Jurgen Habermas

Rawls and Me


Shouldn't I leave off with critical theory?

Shouldn't I simply be a liberal like Rawls?

I respect there's reason in your query,

Even if your American tilt galls.


I want you to persuade you that John's like me,

Both of us doubly fuse our traditions,

Locke, Mill, Kant, Marx, the U.K., Germany--

We've calmed them all with peaceful seditions.


In your land, liberal means two diff'rent things,

John's theory's split between them, so is mine,

My belief in critical theory brings

     to the fore a tension.  I think that's fine.


You're off to see Axel Honneth tonight?

Great, say hello, I think he gets me right.


     

    




     








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