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The Recent Work of Jurgen Habermas - Reason, Justice and Modernity (Hardcover)
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The Recent Work of Jurgen Habermas - Reason, Justice and Modernity (Hardcover)
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Jurgen Habermas is one of the foremost philosophers and social
theorists in the world today. But the complexity and breadth of his
thought make him often difficult to understand. In this book,
Stephen White offers a clear, accessible, and reliable introduction
to Habermas's work, particularly that which he has written since
the publication of Knowledge and human interest (produced in
English in 1971). During this period, new themes and directions
have emerged in Habermas's thought, which culminated in The Theory
of Communicative Action, a massive work that has not hitherto been
the subject of extended commentary and analysis. This book is the
first to provide a full-length study of Habermas's mature thought.
Locating the latter in the context of contemporary debates, White
explains Habermas's ideas about action, rationality, communicative
ethics, contemporary capitalism, and new social movements, which
characterize his later work. He also examines Habermas's
interpretation of modernity, showing that although, like his
forerunners in the Frankfurt School, Habermas maintains a critical
stance towards modernity's instrumentalization of reason, he
nonetheless offers a sophisticated defense of the universal
significance of other aspects of modern consciousness that are too
often forgotten by many recent radical critics of modernity.
Throughout, White presents Habermas's work in such a way as to
emphasize its coherence, and to demonstrate how it constitutes the
beginnings of a distinctive new research program in the social
sciences. As a well-researched and lucid account of Habermas's
thought, this book will appeal to readers wanting an introduction
to the complexity of his ideas, as well as to those already
conversant with them. It will also interest social and political
theorists concerned with the general theoretical issues that it
covers.
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