Jurgen Habermas A Philosophical-Political Profile

by Matustik, Martin Beck

• ISBN13: 9780742507968
• ISBN10: 0742507963
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-06-20
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

This philosophical-political profile offers the first of its kind intellectual reconstruction of Habermas' defining existential and historical situations, his generational profile and interventions, his impact on as well as the discontents that his life work generates in others. Written as a lively dramatic engagement with major themes of Habermas' adult life in postwar Germany, the entire study occupies a unique place between the standard genres of a biography and a theoretical commentary on the oeuvre.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	ix
Glossary of Abbreviations and Foreign Terms	xi
Introduction	xiii
Chronology	xxix
Part One: Situations	1	(86)
From Liberation to Restoration,1945--1959	3	(32)
From Incubation to Revolt,1960--1969	35	(30)
From Revision to Hope and Back Again, 1970--2000	65	(22)
Part Two: Profiles and Interventions	87	(112)
The Phantoms of 1968	89	(36)
The Ghosts of 1945	125	(36)
After 1989: In the Shadows of 1945 and under the Specters of 1968	161	(38)
Part Three: Impact and Discontents	199	(106)
Architectonic and Authorship	201	(36)
The Habermas Effect	237	(40)
At the Crossroads of a New Critical Theory	277	(28)
Habermas Bibliography and Abbreviations of Works Cited	305	(8)
References	313	(14)
Index	327	(14)
About the Author	341