Jurgen Habermas: Key Concepts

by Fultner,Barbara

• ISBN13: 9781844652372
• ISBN10: 1844652378
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2014-08-13
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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's 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 Biography

Barbara Fultner is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Denison University, Ohio.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Abbreviations	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Historical and intellectual contexts	p. 13
Communicative Rationality
Postmetaphysical thinking	p. 35
Communicative action and formal pragmatics	p. 54
System and lifeworld	p. 74
Autonomy, agency and the self	p. 91
Moral and Political Theory
Discourse ethics	p. 115
Deliberative democracy	p. 140
Discourse theory of law	p. 156
Politics and Social Change
Civil society and social movements	p. 177
Cosmopolitan democracy	p. 196
Rationalization, modernity and secularization	p. 222
Chronology of life and works	p. 239
Bibliography	p. 241
Index	p. 253
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