Habermas, Jürgen

The inclusion of the other studies in political theory by Jürgen Habermas ( Book )
70 editions published between 1996 and 2010 in 10 languages and held by 1,842 libraries worldwide
Le philosphe allemand J. Habermas, né en 1929, est la dernière grande figure de l'école de Francfort. Il pose ici la question de l'avenir de la nation et de l'intégration des minorités au sein d'une communauté dans le contexte de la mondialisation.

Knowledge and human interests by Jürgen Habermas ( Book )
76 editions published between 1960 and 2008 in 10 languages and held by 1,706 libraries worldwide

The theory of communicative action by Jürgen Habermas ( Book )
208 editions published between 1981 and 2009 in 13 languages and held by 1,593 libraries worldwide

The philosophical discourse of modernity : twelve lectures by Jürgen Habermas ( Book )
127 editions published between 1984 and 2011 in 14 languages and held by 1,543 libraries worldwide
The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity is a tour de force that has the immediacy and accessibility of the lecture form and the excitement of an encounter across, national cultural boundaries. Habermas takes up the challenge posed by the radical critique of reason in contemporary French poststructuralism. Tracing the odyssey of the philosophical discourse of modernity, Habermas's strategy is to return to those historical "crossroads" at which Hegel and the Young Hegelians, Nietzsche and Heidegger made the fateful decisions that led to this outcome. His aim is to identify and clearly mark out a road indicated but not taken: the determinate negation of subject-centered reason through the concept of communicative rationality. As The Theory of Communicative Action served to place this concept within the history of social theory, these lectures locate it within the history of philosophy. Habermas examines the odyssey of the philosophical discourse of modernity from Hegel through the present and tests his own ideas about the appropriate form of a postmodern discourse through dialogs with a broad range of past and present critics and theorists. The lectures on Georges Bataille, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and Cornelius Castoriadis are of particular note since they are the first fruits of the recent cross-fertilization between French and German thought. Habermas's dialogue with Foucault - begun in person as the first of these lectures were delivered in Paris in 1983 culminates here in two appreciative yet intensely argumentative lectures. His discussion of the literary-theoretical reception of Derrida in America - launched at Cornell in 1984 - issues here in a long excursus on the genre distinction between philosophy and literature. The lectures were reworked for the final time in seminars at Boston College and first published in Germany in the fall of 1985. -- from http://mitpress.mit.edu (August 22, 2011).

Between facts and norms : contributions to a discourse theory of law and democracy by Jürgen Habermas ( Book )
80 editions published between 1992 and 2010 in 9 languages and held by 1,500 libraries worldwide

The structural transformation of the public sphere : an inquiry into a category of bourgeois society by Jürgen Habermas ( Book )
193 editions published between 1961 and 2011 in 18 languages and held by 1,468 libraries worldwide
[This text] is a historical-sociological account of the emergence, transformation, and disintegration of the bourgeois public sphere. It combines materials and methods from sociology and economics, law and political science, and social and cultural history in an effort to grasp the preconditions, structures, functions, and inner tensions of this central domain of modern society. [In the text, the author] traces the interdependent development of the literary and political self-consciousness of this new class, weaving together accounts of the rise of the novel and of literary and political journalism and the spread of reading societies, salons, and coffee houses into a "Bildungsroman" of this "child of the eighteenth century." He notes the contradiction between the liberal public sphere's constitutive catalogue of "basic rights of man" and their de facto restriction to a certain class of men. and he traces the tensions this occasioned as, with the further development of capitalism, the public body expanded beyond the bourgeoisie to include groups that were systematically distate regulation and compensation. -Introd.

On the pragmatics of communication by Jürgen Habermas ( Book )
24 editions published between 1998 and 2003 in English and Portuguese and held by 1,451 libraries worldwide
Bringing together Habermas's key writings on language and communication, this text includes classic as well as new material in an introduction to Habermas's formal pragmatics - a vital aspect of his social theory. Written from 1976 to 1996, the essays show the extent to which formal pragmatics underpins Habermas's theory of communicative action. They are presented in chronological order, so that the reader can trace developments and revisions in Habermas's thought. The volume includes a critical discussion of Searle's theory of meaning, and Richard Rorty's neopragmatism. It concludes with Habermas's recent defence of his theory of communicative action, in which he reaffirms his view that interpretative understanding inescapably involves evaluation.

Legitimation crisis by Jürgen Habermas ( Book )
80 editions published between 1973 and 2005 in 8 languages and held by 1,264 libraries worldwide

Moral consciousness and communicative action by Jürgen Habermas ( Book )
58 editions published between 1983 and 2008 in 6 languages and held by 1,260 libraries worldwide

Postmetaphysical thinking : philosophical essays by Jürgen Habermas ( Book )
50 editions published between 1988 and 2009 in 9 languages and held by 1,238 libraries worldwide
"Rédigé en 1987-1988, ce livre tire les conclusions philosophiques de la théorie de l'agir communicationnel de 1981". L'auteur y défend une démarche à la fois rationnelle et sceptique qui mise sur l'échange fécond entre la philosophie et les sciences humaines et sociales. [SDM].