Is it possible, starting from Rawls but refraining from a wholesale acceptance of his theory, to construct a philosophy of authentic liberal pluralism? This would be a pluralism both grounded within the reasonable political reason inherited from the Enlightenment and «immune» to the twofold weakness of reason: its alleged inability to oppose abusive powers, and its alleged incapacity to provide itself with a foundation. In the search for such a philosophy, the A. suggests that we explore the anchoring of liberal reason in what he calls the «trans-reasonable» domain, which is both internal to reason and other than it. He attempts to circumscribe this domain using postmodern approaches to subjectivity and ontology — mainly those of Levinas an...