JÜrgen Habermas is one of the foremost philosophers and social theorists in the world today, but the complexity and breadth of his thought make him often difficult to understand. This book offers a clear, accessible, and reliable introduction to Habermas' work, particularly that which he has written in the 1970s and 1980s when new themes and directions have emerged in his thought. The author explains the ideas that characterize Habermas' later work, locating them in the context of contemporary debates, and demonstrates how they constitute the beginnings of a coherent and distinctive new research program.
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"White presents a clear and accurate account of Habermas' recent work, most importantly The Theory of Communicative Action. Centering on the notion of communicative rationality, he traces Habermas' elaborate effort to develop a non-foundationalist universalism through all its twists and turns. His discussion of the 'minimal ethics' built into the structure of communication and of the implications of this for a theory of justice is particularly perceptive. His study will be of value to everyone interested in Habermas, beginner and initiate alike." Thomas McCarthy, Northwestern University
"White's succinct text is remarkably well written and skillfully organized." Contemporary Sociology
"White's succinct text is remarkably well written and skillfully organized." Contemporary Sociology
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Some years ago Imre Lakatos suggested that the theoretical landscape of the natural sciences can best be conceptualized as a terrain of competing research programs or general strategies for interpretation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
postconventional ethics, communicative sociation, rationalized lifeworld, social science research program, communicative model, discursive ethics, contextual rationality, cultural value spheres, minimal ethics, normative argumentation, new obscurity, communicative ethics, societal rationalization, normative legitimacy, interactive competence, contextualist perspective, generalizable interests, cultural impoverishment, cultural rationalization, strategic rationality, expert cultures, symbolic reproduction, communicative action, fragmented consciousness, real discourse Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Some years ago Imre Lakatos suggested that the theoretical landscape of the natural sciences can best be conceptualized as a terrain of competing research programs or general strategies for interpretation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
postconventional ethics, communicative sociation, rationalized lifeworld, social science research program, communicative model, discursive ethics, contextual rationality, cultural value spheres, minimal ethics, normative argumentation, new obscurity, communicative ethics, societal rationalization, normative legitimacy, interactive competence, contextualist perspective, generalizable interests, cultural impoverishment, cultural rationalization, strategic rationality, expert cultures, symbolic reproduction, communicative action, fragmented consciousness, real discourse Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Legitimation Crisis, Frankfurt School New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Theory of Communicative Action: Lifeworld and Systems, a Critique of Functionalist Reason, Volume 2 by Jurgen Habermas (Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt); Translated by: Thomas McCarthy (Northwestern University) on 13 pages
- Legitimation Crisis by Juergen Habermas on 10 pages
- Habermas: Critical Debates by Jurgen Habermas on 9 pages
- Knowledge & Human Interests by Juergen Habermas on 9 pages
- A Theory of Justice by John Rawls on 7 pages
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- The Cambridge Companion to Habermas (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) by Stephen K. White on page 44, page 162, and Back Matter
- The Handbook of Critical Theory by David Rasmussen on page 187, and page 411
- Force Fields: Between Intellectual History and Cultural Critique by Martin Jay in Back Matter
- Bible-Carrying Christians: Conservative Protestants and Social Power by David Harrington Watt in Back Matter
- Modernist Impulses in the Human Sciences, 1870-1930 by Dorothy Ross in Back Matter
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