Truth and Justification

In this important book, now available in paperback, Jürgen Habermas returns to the traditional philosophical questions of truth, objectivity and reality. It will be of interest to scholars and students of contemporary philosophy, social theory and the humanities and social sciences generally.

List of contents

Translator's Introduction
Introduction: Realism after the Linguistic Turn
1. Hermeneutic and Analytic Philosophy: Two Complementary Versions of the Linguistic Turn
2. From Kant's "Ideas" of Pure Reason to the "Idealizing" Presuppositions of Communicative Action: Reflections on the Detranscendentalized "Use of Reason"
3. From Kant to Hegel: On Robert Brandom's Pragmatic Philosophy of Language
4. From Kant to Hegel and Back Again: The Move toward Detranscendentalization
5. Norms and Values: On Hilary Putnam's Kantian Pragmatism
6. Rightness versus Truth: On the Sense of Normative Validity in MoraiJudgments and Norms
7. The Relationship between Theory and Practice Revisited
Notes
Index

About the author

Jürgen Habermas is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt.

Product details

• Authors: Habermas, J Habermas, Jurgen Habermas, Jürgen Habermas, Jürgen Habermas, Habermas Jurgen
• Assisted by: Barbara Fultner (Translation), Fultner Barbara (Translation)
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2017
• EAN: 9780745691886
• ISBN: 978-0-7456-9188-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Philosophiegeschichte, Ethik und Moralphilosophie, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge