Perspectives on Habermas

This collection of writings by eminent philosophers explores the controversial career of Jurgen Habermas, whose adherence to the Enlightenment ideals of rationality, humanism, and respect for discourse has set him apart from most postmodernist thinkers.

Preface

ix

Introduction

xi

PART ONE: COMMUNICATIVE RATIONALITY

1

(172)

Distorted Communication: Formal Pragmatics as a Critical Theory

3

(18)

James Bohman

The Real Conditions for the Possibility of Communicative Action

21

(30)

Lenore Langsdorf

Assertions, Truth, and Argumentation

51

(20)

Carlos Pereda

Habermas and Vico on Mythical Thought

71

(18)

Alexander Bertland

Myth, Language, and Habermasian Rationality: Another Africana Contribution

89

(24)

Paget Henry

Communicative Action Theory and the Possibility of Theology

113

(10)

Garth Gillan

Modernity's Religion: Habermas and the Linguistification of the Sacred

123

(16)

Eduardo Mendieta

Philosophy and the Dialectic of Modernity

139

(18)

Thelma Z. Lavine

Toward a Pragmatics of Artistic Utterance

157

(16)

Beth J. Singer

PART TWO: COMMUNICATIVE ETHICS

173

(84)

Fallibilism, Rational Reconstruction, and the Distinction between Moral Theory and Ethical Life

175

(20)

W. S. K. Cameron

Confucian Reflections on Habermasian Approaches: Moral Rationality and Inter-humanity

195

(40)

Chung-ying Cheng

The Formal Thought of Jurgen Habermas from the Perspective of a Universal Material Ethics

235

(22)

Enrique Dussel

PART THREE: COMMUNICATIVE POLITICS

257

(166)

Habermas, the Public Sphere, and Democracy: A Critical Intervention

259

(30)

Douglas Kellner

Individual Freedom and Social Equality: Habermas's Democratic Revolution in the Social Contractarian Justification of Law

289

(20)

David Ingram

Law and Politics in Between Facts and Norms

309

(14)

Paul G. Chevigny

On Habermas and Difference: Critical Theory and the `Politics of Recognition'

323

(16)

Lorenzo C. Simpson

The Critical Theorist as Witness: Habermas and the Holocaust

339

(28)

Martin Beck Matustik

Discursive Democracy and a Democratic Way of Life

367

(20)

Scott Bartlett

Habermas in the ``Wild, Wild West''

387

(24)

Max Oelschlaeger

Eurocentrically Distorted Communication

411

(12)

Bill Martin

PART FOUR: COMPARISONS

423

(130)

Historical Materialism

Habermas and the Marxian Tradition

425

(20)

William L. McBride

Social Labor and Communicative Action

445

(18)

Marie Fleming

Hermeneutics

Critical Theory and Hermeneutics: Some Outstanding Issues in the Debate

463

(24)

G. B. Madison

Habermas versus Gadamer? Some Remarks

487

(14)

Richard E. Palmer

Science, Technology, and Education

Habermas's Unresolved Dualism: Zweckrationalitat as Idee Fixe

501

(14)

Larry A. Hickman

Habermas and Husserl on Positivism and the Philosophy of Science

515

(16)

David Detmer

Habermas and Education

531

(22)

Robert Young

PART FIVE: THE FUTURE OF CRITICAL THEORY

553

(16)

What's Critical about Critical Theory?

555

(14)

James L. Marsh

Index

569

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