Habermas

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ISBN: 9780801476013 | 0801476011
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Copyright: 8/19/2010

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The work of Jrgen Habermas (b. 1929) has been highly influential both in philosophy and across many disciplines in the social science. David Ingram here provides an accessible introduction to Habermas's complex thought as it has evolved from 1953 to the present, spanning philosophy, religion, political science, social science, and law. One of today's most intriguing thinkers, Habermas is also notably prolific; for students and other readers who wish to navigate the philosopher's more than thirty books, the lucid and precise Habermas: Introduction and Analysis is a welcome starting point rich in insights.

List of Tables	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Abbreviations for Titles of Works by Habermas	p. xv
A Public Intellectual Committed to Reason	p. 1
Habermas's Life	p. 2
From the Critique of Ideology to the Dialectic of Enlightenment	p. 12
Outline of Chapters	p. 25
Habermas's Defense of Psychoanalytic Social Science	p. 33
The Positivism Debate in German Social Science	p. 34
Modern Nihilism: The Crisis of Science and the Theory/Practice Problem	p. 40
Knowledge and Human Interests	p. 44
A Critique of Knowledge and Human Interests	p. 57
The Linguistic Turn	p. 67
TCA and the Dialectic of Enlightenment	p. 68
Situating Habermas's Philosophy of Language	p. 72
Transcendental Philosophy of Language as Rational Reconstruction	p. 74
Universal Pragmatics and Formal Semantics	p. 77
Formal Pragmatics and Speech Act Theory	p. 79
Discourse	p. 81
Communicative and Strategic Speech Acts	p. 83
A Critique of Universal Pragmatics	p. 87
Knowledge and Truth Revisited	p. 95
Subject-Object Paradigms of Knowledge	p. 99
Internal Realism	p. 101
Reference and Meaning	p. 103
Knowledge and Evolution	p. 109
Moral Realism	p. 109
Is Formal Pragmatism a Defensible Alternative to Realism and Contextualism?	p. 111
Discourse Ethics	p. 115
Practical Reason: Delimiting the Domain of the Moral	p. 116
The Priority of the Right over the Good	p. 117
Modernity and Moral Development	p. 118
Deontological Moral Theory and Universalizability: Kant and Rawls	p. 122
Moral Cognitivism versus Moral Skepticism	p. 127
Moral Argumentation as Discourse	p. 129
Neo-Aristotelian Objections and the Abortion Controversy	p. 138
Justification and Application	p. 140
Discourse Ethics Applied: Genetic Testing and the Future of Human Nature	p. 142
Problems and Paradoxes	p. 144
Habermas's Ideal of Argumentation: A Final Assessment	p. 146
Law and Democracy: Part I: The Foundational Rights	p. 153
Modern Law and Morality: A Paradoxical Wedding of Facts and Norms	p. 154
Situating Habermas's Theory of Law and Democracy: Some Contemporary Debates	p. 155
The Sociological Genesis of Modern Law	p. 161
The System of Rights	p. 166
Negative and Positive Rights (Duties)	p. 170
Constitutional Foundations	p. 173
Human Rights: Subsistence as a Test Case for a Juridical Conception of Rights	p. 175
Final Thoughts on the Procedural Ideal of Deliberative Democracy	p. 189
Law and Democracy: Part II: Power and the Clash of Paradigms	p. 193
Democracy and the Powers of Government	p. 193
The Separation of Powers	p. 197
The Transmission of Communicative Power: From Public Sphere to Government Administration	p. 201
Discourse and Adjudication	p. 206
The Proceduralist Paradigm of Law and Democracy	p. 211
A Concluding Assessment	p. 215
Law and Democracy: Part III: Applying the Proceduralist Paradigm	p. 221
Separation of Church and State: The Public/Private Distinction	p. 221
Gender Difference and the Law	p. 229
Multiculturalism	p. 234
Immigration	p. 244
Law and Democracy: Part IV: Social Complexity and a Critical Assessment	p. 253
Questioning the Proceduralist Paradigm	p. 258
Substantive Economic Justice and Workplace Democracy	p. 260
The Technological Dimension of Democracy	p. 262
Revolution and Democracy	p. 264
Crisis and Pathology: The Future of Democracy in a Global Age	p. 267
Capitalism and the Crisis of Democracy	p. 268
Social Pathologies and the Colonization of the Lifeworld	p. 271
Globalization: The New Challenge	p. 283
Cosmopolitan Democracy and Global Politics as a Response to Global Crisis	p. 285
Politics and the Rule of Law in International Relations	p. 286
The Constitutionalization of International Relations	p. 294
The Limits of Democratization: A Critical Assessment	p. 301
Postsecular Postscript: Modernity and Its Discontents	p. 307
Marx on the Evolution of Modern Society	p. 310
Weber on Modernization and the Problem of Meaning	p. 316
Secularization and the Rationalization of the Lifeworld	p. 320
Between Past and Future: Art, Religion, and the Dialectic of Enlightenment Revisited	p. 323
Explaining Action	p. 329
Understanding Action	p. 331
Habermas and Brandom	p. 335
Developmental Psychology	p. 339
Rational Choice Theory	p. 341
Systems Theory	p. 345
Index	p. 351
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