The Philosophy of Jürgen Habermas

Uwe Steinhoff

Oxford University Press

2009

286 páginas

9h 32m

ISBN-13: 9780199547807

This book provides a comprehensive and detailed analysis and a sustained critique of Habermas' "Critical Theory". It clearly depicts the long chain of arguments leading from an analysis of speech acts to a discourse theory of law and the democratic constitutional state. Along the way the study examines, among other things, Habermas' theory of communicative action, transcendental pragmatics and the argument from "performative contradictions", discourse ethics, theconsensus theory of truth, Habermas' ideas on developmental psychology, communicative pathologies and social evolution, his theory of social order, the analysis of the tensions between system and lifeworld, his theory of modernity, and his theory of deliberative democracy.