These essays by the contemporary German philosopher and sociologist, Jürgen Habermas, were written between 1958 and 1979. In them, he sketches his impressions - as if he were ...

Habermas's 1971 Gauss Lectures, plus two additional essays, outlining an intersubjective approach to social theory.

This book offers a critical analysis of the complex theory of law and democracy developed by celebrated German philosopher and public intellectual Jürgen Habermas.

The contributions in this anthology address tensions that arise between reason and politics in a democracy inspired by the ideal of achieving reasoned agreement among free and ...

Habermas engages with a wide range of twentieth-century thinkers, including theologian Johann Baptist Metz and Finnish philosopher Georg Henrik von Wright.

This book is an interpretation and critique of Habermas's philosophy as contained in his book, Between Facts and Norms. The main argument is that while Habermas does succeed in ...

In this book, Habermas examines the tension between the spread of naturalistic, scientific views on the one hand, and the rise of religious orthodoxies and revitalization of ...