The Philosophy of Jürgen Habermas: A Critical Introduction

ISBN-13: 9780199547807 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 304 str.

Uwe Steinhoff

Opis

A comprehensive and detailed analysis and sustained critique of Habermas' philosophical system since his pragmatist turn in the 70s. The study clearly and precisely depicts his long chain of arguments leading from analysis of speech acts to a discourse theory of law and the democratic constitutional state.-

Recenzje

The most detailed and relentless critique to date of Habermas's communicative action theory, and the critical theory of society supposedly grounded on it...Summing Up: Highly recommended.

O autorze

Uwe Steinhoff studied philosophy, psychology and politics in Frankfurt a.M., Berlin and Würzburg. He is the author of On the Ethics of War and Terrorism and of Effiziente Ethik: Über Rationalität, Selbsterschaffung, Politik und Postmoderne as well as of articles on ethics, political philosophy, epistemology and postmodernism. He is Assistant Professor at the Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Hong Kong, and Senior Research Associate in The Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War.