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Habermas /

Jurgen 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 Bayne...

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Main Author: Baynes, Kenneth
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge, 2016.
Edition:1st [edition].
Series:Routledge philosophers
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Table of Contents:
  • Life and works
  • Habermas' initial attempts at a critical theory of society
  • The theory of communicative action: Habermas' model of a critical social science
  • Habermas' Kantian pragmatism
  • Locating discourse morality
  • Democracy and the Rechtsstaat: Habermas' between facts and norms
  • Deliberative democracy, public reason, and democracy beyond the nation-state
  • A sobered philosophy: postmodernism, postmetaphysical thinking, and postsecularism.