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  1. ISBN-10
    0521738318
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0521738316
  3. Publisher
    Cambridge University Press
  4. Publication date
    September 27, 2010
  5. Language
    English
  6. Dimensions
    6 x 0.7 x 9 inches
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    278 pages
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"This is an original work of the first importance both for our understanding of Habermas - one of the most important European philosophers and political theorists of the twentieth century - and the political-intellectual history of the West German republic. In addition, it is an exemplary work of intellectual history; it shows convincingly how the disciplinary approach can reveal meanings and dimensions of a highly abstract body of thought that a purely conceptual interpretation inevitably misses."
Gerald Izenberg, Washington University, St Louis

"This is a remarkable piece of work. No other book has situated Habermas's thinking within its intellectual-historical context as deftly and with such sophistication. Specter digs widely and deeply into the German-language writings of Habermas's interlocutors (as well as his named and often unnamed adversaries) in each of postwar Germany's periods of crisis. His argument for a continuity (traceable through attention to the law) in Habermas's corpus is courageous and convincing."
John P. McCormick, University of Chicago

"I have found Matthew Specter's Habermas: An Intellectual Biography immensely rewarding. By showing how deeply Jürgen Habermas was implicated in debates over constitutional and legal theory in West Germany from the mid-1950s onward, Specter has given me a far clearer understanding than I was previously able to muster of a figure who has a strong claim to being the most important political thinker of the second half of the twentieth century - and of today as well. This is contextualizing intellectual history of the best kind. Specter never treats Habermas’s interventions as mere 'discourse'. On the contrary, he enters into the substance of the theoretical issues that Habermas has addressed. Indeed, his own clear voice can occasionally be heard as he enters into a discreet and respectful dialogue with a man who did much for the transformation of German public culture in the years since 1945."
Allan Megill, University of Virginia

"For lawyers, Jürgen Habermas is a political authority. His work symbolizes the change from 'state' to 'constitution', from the ontological system of values to processuality, pluralism, and discourse. Matthew G. Specter pictures the 'political Habermas' and gives us a fascinating panorama of the intellectual scene in Western Germany on its way to 'normality'."
Michael Stolleis, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt

"This book offers an eye-opening and richly historical account of the dominant intellectual figure of the Federal Republic. It enriches our understanding of Habermas, by placing him as part of the ongoing struggle to create a democratic Germany."
Adam Tooze, Yale University

"… first rate scholarship …"
Choice

"… an illuminating and immensely informative book."
Peter Gordon, The New Republic

"Specter's book is a work of deep scholarship and judiciousness in guiding us through some of the most critical junctures at which Habermas's dual roles - as a public intellectual and philosopher - have intersected."
Seyla Benhabib, Constellations

"In addition to displaying a mastery of Habermas’s major texts, Specter is often at his best exploring in detail the contents of lesser-known essays, which he uses to clarify the development of key concepts and positions …"
Central European History

"Specter delivers, in any event, a provocative, nuanced, and well-supported argument that masterfully weaves together multiple levels of analysis."
Sean A. Forner, Journal of Modern History

"I read Matthew Specter's book with great pleasure and even astonishment. Like many American readers of Habermas, I knew little or nothing about his involvement in German politics, and even less about the German political and legal debates that form the background of many of his writings. Of course Habermas's arguments stand or fall on their merits. But until I read [this] superb book, I had no idea how much I was missing. From Specter I discovered that what seemed like arid abstractions in Habermas are not arid at all - indeed, are not even abstractions - once you know the views he was responding to. The book is excellent both as a piece of history and political theory. I would heartily recommend it to anyone with an interest in Habermas or, for that matter, in postwar German history."
David Luban

Book Description

This book follows postwar Germany's leading philosopher and social thinker, Jürgen Habermas, through four decades of German political and constitutional struggles.
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cambridge University Press (September 27, 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 278 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0521738318
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0521738316
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.5 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches
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I am Senior Fellow at the Institute for European Studies, and a Faculty Affiliate at the Institute for International Studies, both at the University of California at Berkeley. I am also a Lecturer in the History Department at Santa Clara University and Associate Editor of the journal History & Theory. My expertise includes the history of modern international relations theories and international political thought, modern European intellectual history, 20th century German history, and contemporary social, political and cultural theory. A former Associate Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University (2008-2017), I have held fellowships from the International Center for Research in Cultural Studies in Vienna, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, and the American Council on Germany. I earned the PhD in modern European history from Duke University in 2006, and, I have taught at Duke, Stanford, George Mason University in addition to CCSU. I have been a visiting scholar at Duke University's Center for International and Global Studies, Wesleyan University's Center for Humanities, the Institute for the Human Sciences in Vienna, and the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt. My first book, an intellectual biography of Europe's most important living philosopher, Jurgen Habermas,was translated into Spanish and Turkish, and widely reviewed.I have also published articles and reviews in Dissent, the LA Review of Books, the Harvard International Review, Verfassungsblog.de, Human Rights Review, German Politics and Society, Modern Intellectual History, History and Theory, Constellations, the Journal of Modern History, and Central European History.

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