The Cambridge Companion to Habermas
By: edited by Stephen K. White.
Contributors: White, Stephen K.
Series: Cambridge Companions
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Cambridge, United Kingdom; New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780521446662
Copyright date: 1995
Subjects: Habermas, Jürgen.
Description: 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.

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Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-340) and index.

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Table of contents: title: List of contributors
pagenum: vii; title: PART I. INTRODUCTION; label: 1
title: Reason, modernity, and democracy, STEPHEN K. WHITE
pagenum: 3; title: PART II. HERITAGE AND CONTEXT; label: 2
title: Identity and difference in the ethical positions of Adorno and Habermas, ROMAND COLES
pagenum: 19; label: 3
title: What’s left of Marx? NANCY S. LOVE
pagenum: 46; label: 4
title: Universalism and the situated critic, MAX PENSKY
pagenum: 67; title: PART III. COMMUNICATIVE RATIONALITY: SOCIAL SCIENTIFIC AND ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS; label: 5
title: Critical theory as a research program, JOHN S. DRYZEK
pagenum: 97; label: 6
title: Communicative rationality and cultural values, GEORGIA WARNKE
pagenum: 120; label: 7
title: Practical discourse and communicative ethcs, J. DONALD MOON
pagenum: 143; title: PART IV. DISCURSIVE DEMOCRACY; label: 8
title: The self in discursive democracy, MARK E. WARREN
pagenum: 167; label: 9
title: Democracy and the Rechtsstaat: Habermas’s Faktizitat und Geltung, KENNETH BAYNES
pagenum: 201; label: 10
title: Discourse and democratic practices, SIMONE CHAMBERS
pagenum: 233; title: PART V. THE DEFENSE OF MODERNITY; label: 11
title: Habermas’s significant other, TRACY B. STRONG AND FRANK ANDREAS SPOSITO
pagenum: 263; label: 12
title: The other of justice: Habermas and the ethical challenge of postmodernism, AXEL HONNETH
pagenum: 289; title: Select bibliography
pagenum: 325; title: Index
pagenum: 341