Habermas - James Gordon Finlayson

Habermas

A Very Short Introduction
Buch | Softcover
192 Seiten
2005
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-284095-0 (ISBN)
11,20 inkl. MwSt
This book provides a clear and readable overview of the works of today's most influential German philosopher. It analyses the theoretical underpinnings of Habermas's social theory, and its applications in ethics, politics, and law. Finally, it examines how his social and political theory informs his writing on contemporary, political, and social problems.
This book gives a clear and readable overview of the philosophical work of Jürgen Habermas, the most influential German philosopher alive today, who has commented widely on subjects such as Marxism, the importance and effectiveness of communication, the reunification of Germany, and the European Union.
Gordon Finlayson provides readers with a clear and readable overview of Habermas's forbiddingly complex philosophy using concrete examples and accessible language. He then goes on to analyse both the theoretical underpinnings of Habermas's social theory, and its more concrete applications in the fields of ethics, politics, and law; and concludes with an examination how Habermas's social and political theory informs his writing on contemporary, political, and social problems.

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James Gordon Finlayson is a lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sussex, and was previously Lecturer in Post-Kantian European Philosophy at York University. He has published widely on Habermas, and contributed to Habermas: A Critical Reader (Blackwell). He is the author of a forthcoming monograph on problems in Habermas's Discourse Ethics.

Preface: Who is Jurgen Habermas ; 1. Habermas and Frankfurt School Critical Theory ; 2. Habermas's New Approach to Social Theory ; 3. The Pragmatic Meaning Programme ; 4. The Programme of Social Theory ; 5. Habermas's Theory of Modernity ; 6. Discourse Ethics I: The Discourse Theory of Morality ; 7. Discourse Ethics II: Ethical Discourse and the Political Turn ; 8. Politics, Democracy, and Law ; 9. Politics Beyond The Bounds Of The Nation Alone

Reihe/Serie Very Short Introductions
Zusatzinfo 13 black and white
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 111 x 174 mm
Gewicht 141 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Neuzeit
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Systeme
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
ISBN-10 0-19-284095-9 / 0192840959
ISBN-13 978-0-19-284095-0 / 9780192840950
Zustand Neuware
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