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Informationen zum Autor Robert C.Holub is professor in the German Department at the University of California at Berkeley. His publications include Reflections of Realism (1991), Reception Theory (1984), and Heinrich Heine’s Reception of German Grecophilia (1981). He has edited two volumes of Heine’s works in English as well as the collection Teoria della ricezione (1989). Klappentext The most important intellectual in the Federal Republic of Germany for the past three decades, Habermas has been a seminal contributor to fields ranging from sociology and political science to philosophy and cultural studies. Although he has stood at the centre of concern in his native land, he has been less readily accepted outside Germany, particularly in the humanities. His theoretical work postulates the centrality of communication and understanding, and as such his strategy of debate is marked by a politically informed unity of theory and practice. Holub's book is the first detailed account of the major debates in which Habermas has engaged since the early sixties. It stems from the conviction that his critics have not understood the political strategy behind his various interventions, or the consistency that informs his intellectual activities. Habermas is viewed in dialogue with important philosophical, sociological and political currents in West Germany. Holub demonstrates how Habermas pursues a course that incorporates various aspects of his opponents' positions, while simultaneously defending perceived threats to democracy and open discussion. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Methodology in the social sciences; Chapter 3 On ideology and interpretation; Chapter 4 Democracy and the student movement; Chapter 5 Systems and society; Chapter 6 Modernity and postmodernity; Chapter 7 National Socialism and the Holocaust;...
