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Jurgen Habermas
A new collection of philosophical essays by one of the worlda s leading social and political thinkers. 2. Explores the work of important figures in twentieth–century philosophy and theology, such…
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This is a very timely and important political intervention by one of the leading social and political thinkers in the world today. Habermas examines the current crisis in the Eurozone…
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Translated by Ciaran Cronin. In the midst of the current crisis that is threatening to derail the historical project of European unification, Jurgen Habermas has been one of the most…
The author examines the relations between action concepts and systems theory and elaborates a framework for analyzing the developmental tendencies of modern societies.
Focuses on the German problem of ‘coming to terms within the past’. This book features an attack on the revisionist German historians who have been trying to trivialize and ‘normalize’…
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Through a wide-ranging analysis of legal theory, moral philosophy and the sociology of law, Habermas develops his own account of the nature of law and democracy, reconstructing the basic assumptions…
aeo This is Habermasa s long–awaited work on law and democracy. aeo It develops a distinctive account of the nature of law and an original concept of democracy. aeo As…
In this work, Habermas retraces the emergence and development of the bourgeois public sphere, focusing on Europe in the early modern period. He examines the writing of political theorists and…
In his writings on religion and secularization, Habermas has challenged reason to clarify its relation to religious experience and to engage religions in a constructive dialogue.
In his recent writings on religion and secularization, Habermas has challenged reason to clarify its relation to religious experience and to engage religions in a constructive dialogue.
Detlef Horster
Ist das Habermas'sche Werk eine Ethik der Moderne? Mit seiner Darstellung der Habermas'schen Philosophie will Detlef Horster diese Frage beantworten. Die Analyse reicht von der ersten Auseinandersetzung mit Heidegger uber…
Michael Pusey
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
An authoritative introduction to the work of Habermas. His sometimes difficult and inaccessible work is rendered accessible by Michael Pusey for the student reader.
This is the first systematic assessment of the work of Jurgen Habermas - the key theorist of the later Frankfurt School, whose writing has had a major impact on social…
Focuses on the traditional philosophical questions of truth, objectivity and reality. The author pursues these questions from the perspective of his own formal pragmatic theory which is based on an…
This anthology brings together for the first time, in revised or new translation, ten essays that present the main concerns of Jurgen Habermas’s program in formal pragmatics.
Barbara Fultner
A rare systematic thinker, Habermas has furthered our understanding of modernity, social interaction and linguistic practice, societal institutions, rationality, morality, the law, globalization, and the role of religion in multicultural…
Thomas McCarthy
This paperback edition contains a new greatly expanded bibliography of Habermas’s work.
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Habermas is one of the worlda s leading social and political thinkers. 2. The first book to bring together Habermasa s key writings on religion. 3. Includes an original interview…
Offers a systematic reconstruction of the theoretical foundations and framework of critical social theory.
This is Jurgen Habermas’s most concrete historical-sociological book and one of the key contributions to political thought in the postwar period.
Jurgen Habermas here works through the legal and political implications of his Theory of Communicative Action (1981), and offers a sweeping, sociologically-informed conceptualization of law and basic rights, and concludes…
Garbis Kortian
Jurgen Habermas asserts, in the Preface to Knowledge and Human Interests, that a radical critique of knowledge is only possible as a social theory. In this essay, Garbin Kortian discusses…
Ina Pappert
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Sonstiges, Note: 1,3, Fachhochschule Potsdam (Kulturarbeit), Veranstaltung: Kult, Kultur und Religion, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Weltmacht Habermas , Herr der Grossdebatten…
Silke Lachnit
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Theorien, Modelle, Begriffe, Note: 1,0, Hochschule fur Wirtschaft und Umwelt Nurtingen-Geislingen; Standort Geislingen (Institut fur deutsche Philologie), Veranstaltung: Konzepte…
Camil Ungureanu,Klaus Gunther
Jurgen Habermas is widely regarded as one of the outstanding intellectuals. This title focuses on the theory of law which can be distilled from his vast compendium of work. It…
Uwe Steinhoff
This book provides a comprehensive and detailed analysis and sustained critique of Jurgen Habermas’ Critical Theory . It will be essential reading for scholars and students alike.
Facticity and Validity is one of Jurgen Habermas’s principal works. In it, he proposes an innovative justification for the principles of the democratic constitutional state, and, at the same time…
Martin Beck Matustik
This philosophical-political profile offers an intellectual reconstruction of Jurgen Habermas’ defining historical and existential situations, his generational profile and interventions, his impact on as well as the discontents that his…
Luke Goode
For scholars of communication, democracy and citizenship, who are seeking a clear and critical overview, this is a valuable and timely book. Political Studies Review
This critique of French philosophy and the history of German philosophy is a tour de force that has the immediacy and accessibility of the lecture form and the excitement of…
Robert C. Holub
Examines the theoretical and practical dimensions of Habermas’s debates with contemporary philosophy and the social sciences and the politically informed unity of his theory and practice.
Nadine Wickert
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2001 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Klassiker und Theorierichtungen, Note: 1,7, Universitat zu Koeln (Institut fur Soziologie), Veranstaltung: Was kann Kapitalismuskritik heute heissen? - Einfuhrung in die…
Knowledge, communication, action - these are the concepts central to all of Habermas’s thought. As a philosopher, he is concerned with the rational connection of these concepts. As a sociologist…
William Rehg
An introduction to the complex theory of discourse ethics as rendered by its major proponent, Juergen Habermas. The study demonstrates how discourse ethics allows philosophers to overcome the principal criticisms…
Simone Chambers
In Reasonable Democracy, Simone Chambers describes, explains, and defends a discursive politics inspired by the work of J rgen Habermas. In addition to comparing Habermas’s ideas with other non-Kantian liberal…
Mulopo Apollinaire Makambu
Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts / Gegenwart, Note: 1, Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universitat Wurzburg, 45 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Habermas'These nach ist…
James C. Swindal
Reflection Revisited examines Habermas’s own development of the theory of emancipative reflection and analyzes how he applies reflection to the problems of ethics and personal identity development.
Jurgen Habermas, particularly in his master work Theory of Communicative Action (1981), takes up several of the basic insights of the philosophical tradition of reflection initiated by Kant, and sets…
Omid Payrow Shabani
Payrow Shabani situates Habermas’s current philosophical orientation by laying out its historical background and theoretical sources in the work of Kant and Hegel, and charting its movement towards an account…
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Markus Raschke
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2001 im Fachbereich Sozialpadagogik / Sozialarbeit, Note: keine, Eberhard-Karls-Universitat Tubingen (Institut fur Erziehungswissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Hauptseminar Lebensweltorientierung und Konzepte der Lebenswelt - Prof. Dr. Hans Thiersch, Sprache…
Examines the theoretical and philosophical contours of the modern era. The book traces the contemporary critiques of modernity back to their philosophical origins in the work of Marx, Nietzsche, Heidegger…
Dafydd Rees
A critical analysis of the recent “postsecular turn’ of Jurgen Habermas’s political philosophy.