Jurgen Habermas - Critic in the Public Sphere

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.

List of contents

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;

About the author

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).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Robert C Holub, Robert C. Holub
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.08.2016
• EAN: 9781138153011
• ISBN: 978-1-138-15301-1
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Critics of the Twentieth Century
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies