Jürgen Habermas

Major works

• The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
• On the Logic of the Social Sciences
• Knowledge and Human Interests
• Theory and Practice
• Towards a Rational Society
• Legitimation Crisis
• Communication and the Evolution of Society
• The Theory of Communicative Action Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns
• Philosophical-Political Profiles
• The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity
• The New Conservatism
• Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action
• Postmetaphysical Thinking
• Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy
• On the Pragmatics of Social Interaction
• The Inclusion of the Other
• The Postnational Constellation

A very good interpretation in English of Habermas's earlier work is still Thomas McCarthy's The Critical Theory of Jürgen Habermas (MIT Press, 1978), which was written just as Habermas was developing his full-fledged communication theory. An especially clear account of Habermas's key views in philosophy, is provided by Raymond Geuss' The Idea of a Critical Theory (Cambridge University Press, 1981). For a very short, good, more recent introduction focusing on Habermas's communication theory of society, see Jane Braaten's Habermas's Critical Theory of Society (State University of New York Press, 1991.) For a recent comprehensive introduction to Habermas's mature theory and its political implications both nationally and globally see Erik Oddvar Eriksen and Jarle Weigard, Understanding Habermas: Communicative Action and Deliberative Democracy (Continuum International Publishing, 2004), ISBN 082647179X.

Related Topics:
Thomas McCarthy - Raymond Geuss

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The norwegian University of Bergen awards the ?520.000 endowed Holberg International Memorial Prize to Jürgen Habermas in 2005.

Related Topics:
University of Bergen - Holberg International Memorial Prize

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