The Recent Work Of Jurgen Habermas
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Author |
: Stephen K. White |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 212 |
Release |
: 1989-08-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521389593 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521389594 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Recent Work of Jürgen Habermas by : Stephen K. White
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. In this book, Stephen White offers a clear, accessible, and reliable introduction to Habermas's work, particularly that which he has written since the publication of Knowledge and human interest (produced in English in 1971). During this period, new themes and directions have emerged in Habermas's thought, which culminated in The Theory of Communicative Action, a massive work that has not hitherto been the subject of extended commentary and analysis. This book is the first to provide a full-length study of Habermas's mature thought. Locating the latter in the context of contemporary debates, White explains Habermas's ideas about action, rationality, communicative ethics, contemporary capitalism, and new social movements, which characterize his later work. He also examines Habermas's interpretation of modernity, showing that although, like his forerunners in the Frankfurt School, Habermas maintains a critical stance towards modernity's instrumentalization of reason, he nonetheless offers a sophisticated defense of the universal significance of other aspects of modern consciousness that are too often forgotten by many recent radical critics of modernity. Throughout, White presents Habermas's work in such a way as to emphasize its coherence, and to demonstrate how it constitutes the beginnings of a distinctive new research program in the social sciences. As a well-researched and lucid account of Habermas's thought, this book will appeal to readers wanting an introduction to the complexity of his ideas, as well as to those already conversant with them. It will also interest social and political theorists concerned with the general theoretical issues that it covers.
Author |
: Barbara Fultner |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 279 |
Release |
: 2014-12-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317492023 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317492021 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Jurgen Habermas by : Barbara Fultner
A rare systematic thinker, Habermas has furthered our understanding of modernity, social interaction and linguistic practice, societal institutions, rationality, morality, the law, globalization, and the role of religion in multicultural societies. He has helped shape discussions of truth, objectivity, normativity, and the relationship between the human and the natural sciences. This volume provides an accessible and comprehensive conceptual map of Habermas' theoretical framework and its key concepts, including the theory of communicative action, discourse ethics, his social-political philosophy and their applications to contemporary issues. It will be an invaluable resource for both novice readers of Habermas and those interested in a more refined understanding of particular aspects of his work.
Author |
: Luke Goode |
Publisher |
: Pluto Press |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2005-10-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0745320880 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780745320885 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis Jurgen Habermas by : Luke Goode
Habermas is a hugely influential thinker, yet his writing can be dense and inaccessible. This critical introduction offers undergraduates a clear way into Habermas’s concept of the ‘public sphere’ and its relevance to contemporary society. Luke Goode’s lively account also sheds new light on the ‘public sphere’ debate that will interest readers already familiar with Habermas’s work.For Habermas, the 'public sphere' was a social forum that allowed people to debate -- whether it was the town hall or the coffee house, maintaining a space for public debate was an essential part of democracy. Habermas’s controversial work examines the erosion of these spaces within consumer society and calls for new thinking about democracy today.Drawing on Habermas’s early and more recent writings, this book examines the ‘public sphere’ in its full complexity, outlining its relevance to today’s media and culture. It will be of interest to students and scholars in a range of disciplines across the social sciences and humanities.
Author |
: Jürgen Habermas |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 355 |
Release |
: 2014-12-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780745695006 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0745695000 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Truth and Justification by : Jürgen Habermas
In this important new book, Jürgen Habermas takes up certain fundamental questions of philosophy. While much of his recent work has been concerned with issues of morality and law, in this new work Habermas returns to the traditional philosophical questions of truth, objectivity and reality which were at the centre of his earlier classic book Knowledge and Human Interests. How can the norms that underpin the linguistically structured world in which we live be brought into step with the contingency of the development of socio-cultural forms of life? How can the idea that our world exists independently of our attempts to describe it be reconciled with the insight that we can never reach reality without the mediation of language and that 'bare' reality is therefore unattainable? In Knowledge and Human Interests Habermas answered these questions with reference to a weak naturalism and a transcendental-pragmatic realism. Since then, however, he has developed a formal pragmatic theory which is based on an analysis of speech acts and language use. In this new volume Habermas takes up the philosophical questions of truth, objectivity and reality from the perspective of his linguistically-based pragmatic theory. The final section addresses the limits of philosophy and reassesses the relation between theory and practice from a perspective that could be described as 'post-Marxist'. This volume, now available in paperback as well, by one of the world's leading philosophers will be essential reading for students and scholars of philosophy, social theory and the humanities and social sciences generally.
Author |
: Stephen K. White |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 204 |
Release |
: 1988-01-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521343607 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521343602 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Recent Work of Jürgen Habermas by : Stephen K. White
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.
Author |
: Jürgen Habermas |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 71 |
Release |
: 2023-10-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781509558957 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1509558950 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere and Deliberative Politics by : Jürgen Habermas
Jürgen Habermas’s book The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, first published in 1962, has long been recognized as one of the most important works of twentieth-century social thought. Blending philosophy and social history, it offered an account of the public sphere as a domain that mediates between civil society and the state in which citizens could discuss matters of common concern and participate in democratic decision-making through the formation of public opinion. Now, in view of the digital revolution and the resulting crisis of democracy, he returns to this important topic. In this new book Habermas focuses on digital media, in particular social media, which are increasingly relegating traditional mass media to the background. While the new media initially promised to empower users, this promise is being undermined by their algorithm-steered platform structure that promotes self-enclosed informational ‘bubbles’ and discursive ‘echo chambers’ in which users split into a plurality of pseudo-publics that are largely closed off from one other. Habermas argues that, without appropriate regulation of digital media, this new structural transformation is in danger of hollowing out the institutions through which democracies can shape social and economic processes and address urgent collective problems, ranging from growing social inequality to the climate crisis.
Author |
: J?rgen Habermas |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 328 |
Release |
: 2015-01-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780745692333 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0745692338 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere by : J?rgen Habermas
This major work retraces the emergence and development of the Bourgeois public sphere - that is, a sphere which was distinct from the state and in which citizens could discuss issues of general interest. In analysing the historical transformations of this sphere, Habermas recovers a concept which is of crucial significance for current debates in social and political theory. Habermas focuses on the liberal notion of the bourgeois public sphere as it emerged in Europe in the early modern period. He examines both the writings of political theorists, including Marx, Mill and de Tocqueville, and the specific institutions and social forms in which the public sphere was realized. This brilliant and influential work has been widely recognized for many years as a classic of contemporary social and political thought, of interest to students and scholars throughout the social sciences and humanities.
Author |
: Robert C. Holub |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 153 |
Release |
: 2013-01-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134921102 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134921101 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Jurgen Habermas by : Robert C. Holub
The most important intellectual in the Federal Republic of Germany for the past three decades, Habermas has been a seminal contributor to fields ranging from sociology and political science to philosophy and cultural studies. Although he has stood at the centre of concern in his native land, he has been less readily accepted outside Germany, particularly in the humanities. His theoretical work postulates the centrality of communication and understanding, and as such his strategy of debate is marked by a politically informed unity of theory and practice. Holub's book is the first detailed account of the major debates in which Habermas has engaged since the early sixties. It stems from the conviction that his critics have not understood the political strategy behind his various interventions, or the consistency that informs his intellectual activities. Habermas is viewed in dialogue with important philosophical, sociological and political currents in West Germany. Holub demonstrates how Habermas pursues a course that incorporates various aspects of his opponents' positions, while simultaneously defending perceived threats to democracy and open discussion.
Author |
: Jürgen Habermas |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 341 |
Release |
: 2018-03-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780745692517 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0745692516 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Inclusion of the Other by : Jürgen Habermas
The Inclusion of the Other contains Habermas's most recent work in political theory and political philosophy. Here Habermas picks up some of the central themes of Between Facts and Norms and elaborates them in relation to current political debates. One of the distinctive features of Habermas's work has been its approach to the problem of political legitimacy through a sustained reflection on the dual legitimating and regulating function of modern legal systems. Extending his discourse theory of normative validity to the legal-political domain, Habermas has defended a proceduralist conception of deliberative democracy in which the burden of legitimating state power is borne by informal and legally institutionalized processes of political deliberation. Its guiding intuition is the radical democratic idea that there is an internal relation between the rule of law and popular sovereignty. In these essays he brings this discursive and proceduralist analysis of political legitimacy to bear on such urgent contemporary issues as the enduring legacy of the welfare state, the future of the nation state, and the prospects of a global politics of human rights. This book will be essential reading for students and academics in sociology and social theory, politics and political theory, philosophy and the social sciences generally.
Author |
: Juergen Habermas |
Publisher |
: Beacon Press |
Total Pages |
: 336 |
Release |
: 1989-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 080702001X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780807020012 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (1X Downloads) |
Synopsis Jurgen Habermas on Society and Politics by : Juergen Habermas
Here for the first time are Habermas's most important writings on society, the state, and social theory collected in one volume. For more than three decades Habermas has consistently attempted to supply foundations for a reconstructed Marxist social theory that provides a critical analysis of modernity. He has defended the position that only if a general notion of reason can be invoked can we hope to sustain a democratic social order. This carefully edited volume includes selections from Habermas's earliest works through his most recent: essays on the aim of social science, the structure of a theory of action and society, the development of modern society, psychoanalysis, and the crisis of the welfare state.