Habermas and Pragmatism

ISBN-13: 9780415234597 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 256 str.

Mitchell Aboulafia; Myra Bookman; Cathy Kemp

Opis

Habermas and Pragmatism investigates the influences of pragmatism on Habermas' thought. The essays are written by leading representatives of pragmatism including Habermas himself, as well as critical and legal theorists. They cover a range of subjects including: - philosophy of language - democracy - nature of rationality - social theory. They also cover the relation of major figures such as Hegel, Pierce, Mead and Dewey to Habermas and pragmatism.

Spis treści

Introduction, Mitchell Aboulafia; Part 1 Transcendentalism and Reason; Chapter 1 Regarding the Relationship of Morality, Law and Democracy, Karl-Otto Apel; Chapter 2 Vicissitudes of Transcendental Reason, Joseph Margolis; Chapter 3 The Epistemological Promise of Pragmatism, Tom Rockmore; Chapter 4 Forming Competence, Myra Bookman; Part 2 Law and Democracy; Chapter 5 The Sirens of Pragmatism Versus the Priests of Proceduralism, David Ingram; Chapter 6 The Problem of Constitutional Interpretive Disagreement, Frank I. Michelman; Part 3 Language and Aesthetic Experience; Chapter 7 Reconstructing the Fourth Dimension, Lenore Langsdorf; Chapter 8 Habermas, Pragmatism, and the Problem of Aesthetics, Richard Shusterman; Part 4 Comparative Studies; Chapter 9 Is Objectivity Perspectival?, Cristina Lafont; Chapter 10 Habermas, Dewey, and the Democratic Self, Sandra B. Rosenthal; Chapter 11 Postscript, Jürgen Habermas;

O autorze

Mitchell Aboiulafia is Professor of Philosophy, Myra Bookman and Cathy Kemp are both lecturers of philosophy, all at the University of Colorado at Denver.