Lasse Thomassen

Habermas: A Guide for the Perplexed (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Jürgen Habermas' work ranges across critical theory, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, the philosophy of science, citizenship and democracy, religion and psychoanalysis, forging new paradigms and engaging with other key thinkers. Habermas: A Guide for the Perplexed is the ideal starting point for anyone studying Habermas. It follows Habermas's critical and philosophical project through all the stages of its development - the early critical theory, the linguistic turn, communicative action and discourse ethics, the theory of deliberative democracy -building up a complete overview of his work, and offering close and incisive analysis throughout.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441195159
• Artikelnr.: 38300354

Autorenporträt

Lasse Thomassen is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory in the Department of Politics at Queen Mary, University of London, and García-Pelayo Fellow at the Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, Madrid, Spain. He is the author of Deconstructing Habermas (Routledge, 2007) and editor of The Derrida-Habermas Reader (Edinburgh UP, 2006) and Radical Democracy (Manchester UP, 2005).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Towards a Critical Theory of Society
3. The Public Sphere
4. Communicative Action and Reason
5. Discourse Ethics
6. Deliberative Democracy
7. The New Political Constellation
Bibliography
Index