1 Historical and intellectual contexts Max Pensky PART I; COMMUNICATIVE RATIONALITY 2 Postmetaphysical thinking Melissa Yates 3 Communicative action and formal pragmatics Barbara Fultner 4 System and lifeworld Joseph Heath 5 Autonomy, agency and the self Joel Anderson PART II: MORAL AND POLITICAL THEORY 6 Discourse ethics 'William Rehg 7 Deliberative democracy Kevin Olson 8 Discourse theory of law Christopher Zurn PART III: POLITICS AND SOCIAL CHANGE 9 Civil society and social movements Keith Haysom 10 Cosmopolitan democracy Ciaran Cronin 11 Rationalization, modernity and secularization Eduardo Mendieta