Habermas
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Habermas

Introduction and Analysis

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Habermas

Introduction and Analysis

About this book

The work of Jürgen Habermas (b. 1929) has been highly influential both in philosophy and across many disciplines in the social sciences. David Ingram here provides an 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.

Ingram's book addresses the entire range of Habermas's social theory, including his most recent and widely discussed contributions to religion, freedom and determinism, global democracy, and the consolidation of the European Union. Recognizing Habermas's position as a highly public intellectual, Ingram discusses how Habermas applies his own theory to pressing problems such as abortion, terrorism, genetic engineering, immigration, multiculturalism, separation of religion and state, technology and mass media, feminism, and human rights. He also presents a detailed critical analysis of Habermas's key claims and arguments.

Separate appendixes introduce and clarify such important concepts as causal, teleological, and narrative paradigms of explanation in action theory; contextualism versus rationalism in social scientific methods of interpretation; systems theory and functionalist explanation in social science; and decision and collective choice theory.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. List of Tables
  3. Preface
  4. Abbreviations for Titles of Works by Habermas
  5. 1: A Public Intellectual Committed to Reason
  6. 2: Habermas’s Defense of Psychoanalytic Social Science
  7. 3: The Linguistic Turn
  8. 4: Knowledge and Truth Revisited
  9. 5: Discourse Ethics
  10. 6: Law and Democracy: Part I: The Foundational Rights
  11. 7: Law and Democracy: Part II: Power and the Clash of Paradigms
  12. 8: Law and Democracy: Part III: Applying the Proceduralist Paradigm
  13. 9: Law and Democracy: Part IV: Social Complexity and a Critical Assessment
  14. 10: Crisis and Pathology: The Future of Democracy in a Global Age
  15. 11: Postsecular Postscript: Modernity and Its Discontents
  16. Appendix A: Explaining Action
  17. Appendix B: Understanding Action
  18. Appendix C: Habermas and Brandom
  19. Appendix D: Developmental Psychology
  20. Appendix E: Rational Choice Theory
  21. Appendix F: Systems Theory
  22. Index