In this comprehensive analysis of Jurgen Habermas's philosophy
and social theory, Marie Fleming takes strong issue with Habermas
over his understanding of rationality and the lifeworld,
emancipation, history, and gender. Throughout the book she focuses
attention on the various ways in which an idea of emancipation
motivates and shapes his universalist theory and how it persists
over several major changes in methodology. Her critique of Habermas
begins from the view that universalism has to include a vision of
gender equality, and she asks why Habermas, despite deeply held
concerns about equality and inclusiveness, repeatedly and
systematically relegates matters of gender to secondary status in
his social and moral theory. She extends her critique to a range of
issues in his theory of rationality and examines what she views as
his very problematical claims about truthfulness, art, and
bourgeois intimacy.
The point of Fleming's critique of Habermas is not to dispute
universalism, but to build on the key universalist principles of
inclusiveness and equality. She is not persuaded by the view,
shared by both sympathizers of Habermas and his postmodern critics,
that to be for or against Habermas is to be for or against
universalism. Her intention rather is to show that Habermas's
theory of modernity is so structured that it cannot achieve its
universalist aims. Contending that his theory is not universalist
enough, she claims that universalism has to be reconceived as a
radical, critical, and historical project.
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