The Cambridge companion to Habermas / edited by Stephen K. White.
| Call Number | 193 |
| Title | The Cambridge companion to Habermas / edited by Stephen K. White. |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (ix, 354 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| Series | Cambridge companions to philosophy |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015). |
| Contents | Reason, modernity, and democracy / Identity and difference in the ethical positions of Adorno and Habermas / What's left of Marx? / Universalism and the situated critic / Critical theory as a research program / Communicative rationality and cultural values / Practical discourse and communicative ethics / The self in discursive democracy / Democracy and the "Rechtsstaat" : Habermas's "Faktizität und Geltung" / Discourse and democratic practices / Habermas's significant other / The other of justice : Habermas and the ethical challenge of post modernism / |
| Summary | Jurgen Habermas is unquestionably one of the foremost philosophers writing today. His notions of communicative action and rationality have exerted a profound influence within philosophy and the social sciences. This volume examines the historical and intellectual contexts out of which Habermas' work emerged, and offers an overview of his main ideas, including those in his most recent publication. Amongst the topics discussed are his relationship to the Frankfurt School of critical theory and Marx, his unique contributions to the philosophy of the social sciences, the concept of 'communicative ethics', and the critique of post-modernism. New readers and non-specialists will find this the most convenient, accessible guide to Habermas currently available. Advanced students will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of Habermas. |
| Added Author | White, Stephen K., editor. |
| Subject | Habermas, Jürgen. |
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| Summary | Jurgen Habermas is unquestionably one of the foremost philosophers writing today. His notions of communicative action and rationality have exerted a profound influence within philosophy and the social sciences. This volume examines the historical and intellectual contexts out of which Habermas' work emerged, and offers an overview of his main ideas, including those in his most recent publication. Amongst the topics discussed are his relationship to the Frankfurt School of critical theory and Marx, his unique contributions to the philosophy of the social sciences, the concept of 'communicative ethics', and the critique of post-modernism. New readers and non-specialists will find this the most convenient, accessible guide to Habermas currently available. Advanced students will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of Habermas. |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015). |
| Contents | Reason, modernity, and democracy / Identity and difference in the ethical positions of Adorno and Habermas / What's left of Marx? / Universalism and the situated critic / Critical theory as a research program / Communicative rationality and cultural values / Practical discourse and communicative ethics / The self in discursive democracy / Democracy and the "Rechtsstaat" : Habermas's "Faktizität und Geltung" / Discourse and democratic practices / Habermas's significant other / The other of justice : Habermas and the ethical challenge of post modernism / |
| Subject | Habermas, Jürgen. |
| Multimedia |