Habermas and Pragmatism

by Aboulafia,Mitchell

• ISBN13: 9780415234580
• ISBN10: 0415234581
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-05-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Jurgen Habermas is one of the most important thinkers of this century. His work has been highly influential not only in philosophy, but particularly in the fields of politics, sociology and law. This is the first collection that explores the connections between his body of work and North America's biggest philosophical movement, pragmatism. Habermas and Pragmatisminvestigates the influences of pragmatism on Habermas' thought in a collection of stellar essays with contributions by Habermas himself, leading representatives of pragmatism, as well as critical and legal theorists. The essays cover a range of subjects including philosophy of language, democracy, nature of rationality and social theory as well as the relation of major figures such as Hegel, Pierce, Mead and Dewey to Habermas and pragmatism.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	vii
Acknowledgments	x
Introduction	1	(14)
Mitchell Aboulafia
Part I Transcendentalism and reason	15	(66)
Regarding the relationship of morality, law and democracy: on Habermas's Philosophy of Law (1992) from a transcendental-pragmatic point of view	17	(14)
Karl-Otto Apel
Vicissitudes of transcendental reason	31	(16)
Joseph Margolis
The epistemological promise of pragmatism	47	(18)
Tom Rockmore
Forming competence: Habermas on reconstructing worlds and context-transcendent reason	65	(16)
Myra Bookman
Part II Law and democracy	81	(58)
The sirens of pragmatism versus the priests of proceduralism: Habermas and American Legal Realism	83	(30)
David Ingram
The problem of constitutional interpretive disagreement: can ``discourses of application'' help?	113	(26)
Frank I. Michelman
Part III Language and aesthetic experience	139	(44)
Reconstructing the fourth dimension: a Deweyan critique of Habermas's conception of communicative action	141	(24)
Lenore Langsdorf
Habermas, pragmatism, and the problem of aesthetics	165	(18)
Richard Shusterman
Part IV Comparative studies	183	(40)
Is objectivity perspectival? Reflexions on Brandom's and Habermas's pragmatist conceptions of objectivity	185	(25)
Cristina Lafont
Habermas, Dewey, and the democratic self	210	(13)
Sandra B. Rosenthal
Postscript: some concluding remarks	223	(1)
Jurgen Habermas
Response	223	(2)
Reflections on pragmatism	225	(4)
On John Dewey's the Quest for Certainty	229	(5)
Index	234