Jurgen Habermas

Klappentext This is the first systematic assessment of the work of Jürgen Habermas - the key theorist of the later Frankfurt School! whose writing has had a major impact on social theory and sociology. These four volumes comprise the key secondary literature on Habermas. Edited by David Rasmussen and James Swindal! leading commentators on Habermas's work! this will be the standard reference work on one of the canonical theorists of the 20th century. VOLUME ONE: THE FOUNDATIONS OF HABERMAS'S PROJECT Habermas as a Critical Theorist \ Habermas! Hermeneutics and Critical Theory \ The Modernity/Postmodernity Debate VOLUME TWO:LAW AND POLITICS Law and Democratic Theory \ The Public Sphere \ Culture and Society VOLUME THREE: ETHICS Discourse Ethics \ Rethinking Discourse Ethics \ Autonomy and Authenticity VOLUME FOUR: COMMUNICATIVE RATIONALITY! FORMAL PRAGMATICS! SPEECH ACT THEORY AND TRUTH Communicative Rationality \ Formal Pragmatics and Speech Act Theory \ Nature! History and the Logic of Development \ Truth Zusammenfassung 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 theory and sociology. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART ONE: THE FOUNDATIONS OF HABERMAS¿S PROJECT Habermas as a Critical Theorist The Critical Theory of J[um]urgen Habermas - Thomas McCarthy Empirico-Analytic and Critical Social Science - Albrecht Wellmer Paradigm-Core and Theory-Dynamics in Critical Social Theory - Hauke Bronkhorst People and Programs Social Theorist at the Institute at Last, Valued by Adorno But Seen by Horkheimer as too Left-Wing - Rolf Wiggershaus Habermas, Hermeneutics and Critical Theory Hermeneutics and Social Science - Hans-Georg Gadamer Ethics and Culture - Paul Ricoeur Habermas and Gadamer in Dialogue The Modernist Left - Ingrid Scheibler Habermas¿s Critique of Gadamer I Should Intellectual History Take a Linguistic Turn? - Martin Jay Reflections on the Habermas-Gadamer Debate Hermeneutics and the Critique of Ideology - Georgia Warnke Communicative Action Habermas on Communicative Action - Ernst Tugendhat Communicative Action and Philosophy - David Rasmussen The Critique of Functionalist Reason - Seyla Benhabib Formal Pragmatics and Social Criticism - James Bohman Social Labor and Communicative Action - Marie Fleming Communication and Reconciliation - Axel Honneth Habermas¿s Critique of Adorno The Modernity / Postmodernity Debate Introduction - Richard Bernstein Habermas and Modernity Deconstruction, Postmodernism and Philosophy - Christopher Norris Habermas on Derrida The Dilemmas of Modernity - David Rasmussen PART TWO: LAW AND POLITICS Law and Democratic Theory Reply to Habermas - John Rawls How Is Valid Law Possible? - David Rasmussen Critique of Habermas¿s Contribution to the Sociology of Law - Klaus Eder Democracy and the > Habermas¿ Faktizit[um]at und Geltung Introduction - Mathieu Deflem Law in Habermas¿s Theory of Communicative Action Crisis Tendencies, Legitimation, and the State - David Held Dworkin, Habermas, and the CLS Movement on Moral Criticism in Law - David Ingram Between Radicalism and Resignation - William Scheuerman Democratic Theory in Habermas¿s Between Facts and Norms Habermas¿s Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy - William Rehg Jurisprudence and Validity? - David Rasmussen The Public Sphere The Globalization of the Public Sphere - James Boham On the Relation of Morality to Politics - Thomas McCarthy Models of Public Space - Seyla Benhabib Hannah Arendt, the Liberal Tradition and J[um]urgen Habermas From a Literary to a Political Public Sphere - Jean Cohen and Andrew Arato

List of contents

PART ONE: THE FOUNDATIONS OF HABERMAS'S PROJECT
Habermas as a Critical Theorist
The Critical Theory of J[um]urgen Habermas - Thomas McCarthy
Empirico-Analytic and Critical Social Science - Albrecht Wellmer
Paradigm-Core and Theory-Dynamics in Critical Social Theory - Hauke Bronkhorst
People and Programs
Social Theorist at the Institute at Last, Valued by Adorno But Seen by Horkheimer as too Left-Wing - Rolf Wiggershaus
Habermas, Hermeneutics and Critical Theory
Hermeneutics and Social Science - Hans-Georg Gadamer
Ethics and Culture - Paul Ricoeur
Habermas and Gadamer in Dialogue
The Modernist Left - Ingrid Scheibler
Habermas's Critique of Gadamer I
Should Intellectual History Take a Linguistic Turn? - Martin Jay
Reflections on the Habermas-Gadamer Debate
Hermeneutics and the Critique of Ideology - Georgia Warnke
Communicative Action
Habermas on Communicative Action - Ernst Tugendhat
Communicative Action and Philosophy - David Rasmussen
The Critique of Functionalist Reason - Seyla Benhabib
Formal Pragmatics and Social Criticism - James Bohman
Social Labor and Communicative Action - Marie Fleming
Communication and Reconciliation - Axel Honneth
Habermas's Critique of Adorno
The Modernity / Postmodernity Debate
Introduction - Richard Bernstein
Habermas and Modernity
Deconstruction, Postmodernism and Philosophy - Christopher Norris
Habermas on Derrida
The Dilemmas of Modernity - David Rasmussen
PART TWO: LAW AND POLITICS
Law and Democratic Theory
Reply to Habermas - John Rawls
How Is Valid Law Possible? - David Rasmussen
Critique of Habermas's Contribution to the Sociology of Law - Klaus Eder
Democracy and the Rechstaat - Ken Baynes
Habermas' Faktizit[um]at und Geltung
Introduction - Mathieu Deflem
Law in Habermas's Theory of Communicative Action
Crisis Tendencies, Legitimation, and the State - David Held
Dworkin, Habermas, and the CLS Movement on Moral Criticism in Law - David Ingram
Between Radicalism and Resignation - William Scheuerman
Democratic Theory in Habermas's Between Facts and Norms
Habermas's Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy - William Rehg
Jurisprudence and Validity? - David Rasmussen
The Public Sphere
The Globalization of the Public Sphere - James Boham
On the Relation of Morality to Politics - Thomas McCarthy
Models of Public Space - Seyla Benhabib
Hannah Arendt, the Liberal Tradition and J[um]urgen Habermas
From a Literary to a Political Public Sphere - Jean Cohen and Andrew Arato
Culture and Society
Habermas, Derrida, and the Function of Philosophy - Richard Rorty
The Metaphor of the Covenant in Habermas - Sander Griffioen
Feminism
What's Critical about Critical Theory - Nancy Fraser
The Case of Habermas and Gender
The Cultural Foundations of Public Policy - Simone Chambers
Feminism and Habermas's Discourse Ethics - Johanna Meehan
The Politics of Vulnerability - Barbara Fultner
On the Role of Idealism in Bulter and Habermas
PART THREE: ETHICS
Discourse Ethics
The Communicative Paradigm in Moral Theory - Alessandro Ferrara
Discourse and the Moral Point of View - William Rehg
Habermas, Communicative Ethics and the Development of Moral Consciousness - Stephen White
Communicative Ethics and Current Controversies in Practical Philosophy - Seyla Benhabib
Discourse Ethics and Civil Society - Jean Cohen
Habermas, Values and the Rational Internal Structure of Communication - Tony Couture
Rethinking Discourse Ethics
The Formal Thought of J[um]urgen Habermas from the Perspective of a Universal Material Ethics - Enrique Dussel
Discourse Ethics and Liberation Ethics - Eduardo Mendieta
Discourse Ethics and Ethical Realism - Felmon Davis
A Realist Realignment of Discourse Ethics
Practical Reasoning
Impartial Application of Moral and Legal Norms - Klaus G[um]unther
A Contribution to Discourse Ethics
Universalisms - Alessandro Ferrara
Proceduralist, Contextualist and Prudential
Normatively Grounding Critical Theory - Karl-Otto Apel
Intractable Conflicts and Moral Objectivity - William Rehg
A Dialogical, Problem-Based Approach
Communicative Competence and Normative Force - Jonathan Culler
MacIntyre and Habermas on Practical Reasons - John Doody
Autonomy and Authenticity
The Ambiguity of Habermas's Notion of Generalizability - Alessandro Ferrara
The Complexity of the Subject, Narrative Identity and the Modernity of the South - Carlos Thiebaut
Habermas, Autonomy and the Identity of the Self - Maeve Cooke
Conflict or Complement?
The Role of the Will in Post-Conventional Personal Identity - James Swindal
Habermas's Reading of Kierkegaard - Martin Matustik
PART FOUR: COMMUNICATIVE RATIONALITY, FORMAL PRAGMATICS, SPEECH ACT THEORY AND TRUTH
Communicative Rationality
The Lifeworld Background of Reflective Acceptability - James Swindal
The Problem of Foundationalism in Habermas's Discourse Ethics - Joseph Heath
The Two Meanings of Communicative Rationality - Martin Seel
Remarks on Habermas's Critique of the Plural Concept of Reason
Language and Society - Charles Taylor
Formal Pragmatics and Speech Act Theory
Speech Acts and Validity Claims - Maeve Cooke
The Unhappy Marriage of Hermeneutics and Functionalism - Hans Joas
Formal Pragmatics and Social Criticism - James Bohman
Is There Any Normative Claim Internal to Stating Facts? - Andreas Dorschel
Nature, History and the Logic of Development
On the Use and Abuse of Memory - Max Pensky
Habermas, `Anamnestic Solidarity' and the Historikerstreit
Habermas's Developmental Logic - David Owen
Universal or Eurocentric
New Science, New Nature - Steven Vogel
The Habermas-Marcuse Debate Revisited
Collective Learning - Piet Styrdom
Habermas's Concessions and Their Implication
Truth
What Is a Validity Claim? - Joseph Heath
Rational Acceptability and Truth - Cristina Lafont
Remarks on the Habermas/Rawls Debate
A Critique of Habermas's Consensus Theory of Truth - Alessandro Ferrara
Habermas's Transformation of Truth Semantics - James Swindal
Habermas's Consensus Theory of Truth - Mary Hesse
The Problems of a Consensus Theory of Truth - Nicholas Rescher

Product details

• Authors: David Swindal Rasmussen
• Assisted by: David Rasmussen (Editor), James Swindal (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.12.2001
• EAN: 9780761974468
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-7446-8
• No. of pages: 1664
• Series: Sage Masters of Modern Social; SAGE Masters in Modern Social Thought Series; SAGE Masters in Modern Social Thought Series; Sage Masters in Modern Social
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