Habermas

Kenneth Baynes

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781317445883
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosophy History & Theory

Jürgen Habermas is one of the most important German philosophers and social theorists of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. His work has been compared in scope with Max Weber's, and in philosophical breadth to that of Kant and Hegel.

In this much-needed introduction Kenneth Baynes engages with the full range of Habermas's philosophical work, addressing his early arguments concerning the emergence of the public sphere and his initial attempt to reconstruct a critical theory of society in Knowledge and Human Interests. He then examines one of Habermas's most influential works, The Theory of Communicative Action, including his controversial account of the rational interpretation of social action. Also covered is Habermas's work on discourse ethics, political and legal theory, including his views on the relation between democracy and constitutionalism, and his arguments concerning human rights and cosmopolitanism. The final chapter assesses Habermas's role as a polemical and prominent public intellectual and his criticism of postmodernism in The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity, in addition to his more recent writings on the relationship between religion and democracy.

Habermas is an invaluable guide to this key figure in contemporary philosophy, and suitable for anyone coming to his work for the first time.

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Chronology
• One Life and works
• Two Habermas’s initial attempts at a critical theory of society
• Three The Theory of Communicative Action: Habermas’s model of a critical social science
• Four Habermas’s “Kantian pragmatism”
• Five Locating discourse morality
• Six Democracy and the Rechtsstaat: Habermas’s Between Facts and Norms
• Seven Deliberative democracy, public reason, and democracy beyond the nation-state
• Eight A “sobered” philosophy: The discourse of modernity, postmetaphysical thinking, and a post-secular society
• Nine Conclusion
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index