Jürgen Habermas

"The THEORY OF COMMUNICATIVE ACTION represents a major contribution to contemporary social theory. Not only does it provide a compelling critique of some of the main perspectives in 20th century philosophy and social science, but it also presents a systematic synthesis of the many themse which have preoccupied Habermas for thirty years." (Times Literary Supplement)

The Theory of Communicative Action

Jurgen Habermas

An Inquiry Into a Category of Bourgeois Society

The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere

A Critique of Functionalist Reason

The Theory of Communicative Action, Volume 2: Lifeword and System

Benedikt XVI. (Papst)

Two of the worlds great contemporary thinkers--theologian and churchman Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, and Jrgen Habermas, philosopher and Neo-Marxist social critic--discuss and debate aspects of secularization, and the role of reason and religion in a free society. These insightful essays are the result of a remarkable dialogue between the two men, sponsored by the Catholic Academy of Bavaria, a little over a year before Joseph Ratzinger was elected pope.

On Reason and Religion

Dialectics of Secularization

Fredric Jameson

Edward W. Said

Rosalind Krauss

Kenneth Frampton

Craig Owens

Gregory L. Ulmer

Essays on Postmodern Culture

The Anti-Aesthetic

Jürgen Habermas, the most influential philosopher and social thinker in modern Germany today, takes up the question of genetic engineering and its ethical implications and subjects it to careful philosophical scrutiny.

The Future of Human Nature

La 4e de couverture indique : "La technique et la science constituent désormais les forces productives les plus importantes des sociétés développées. Cette situation nouvelle pose le problème de leur relation avec la pratique sociale, telle qu'elle doit s'exercer dans un monde où l'information est elle-même un produit de la technique. Jürgen Habermas examine dans les études réunies dans ce volume l'incidence de la rationalité scientifique sur le «monde social vécu» et ses répercussions sur le fonctionnement de la démocratie. Il montre les limites de la technocratie qui tend à s'abriter derrière une pseudo-rationalité pour assurer le triomphe de ses intérêts. Il analyse le système des valeurs en cours, les finalités que se propose le corps social sans toujours en avoir conscience, la fonction des idéologies qui les systématisent. Du même coup il est ici abordé une des plus grandes questions de notre temps : comment le consensus social que postule la démocratie peut-il s'opérer dans les sociétés industrielles avancées ?"

La technique et la science comme "idéologie"

Bölünmüş batı

Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)

Between Facts and Norms

A Response

Crisis of the European Union

الفلسفة الألمانية والتصوف اليهودي

Studies in Political Theory (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)

The Inclusion of the Other

In this enormously influential book, Jurgen Habermas examines the deep tensions and crisis tendencies which underlie the development of contemporary Western societies and develops a powerful analysis of the legitimation problems faced by modern states. Habermas argues that Western societies have succeeded to some extent in stabilizing the economic fluctuations associated with capitalism, but this has created a new range of crisis tendencies which are expressed in other spheres. States intervene in economic life and attempt to regulate markets, but they find themselves confronted by increasing and often conflicting demands. As individuals become increasingly disillusioned, the state is faced with the possibility of a mass withdrawal of loyalty or support - a 'legitimation crisis'. Widely recognized as a classic of contemporary social and political analysis, Legitimation Crisis sheds light on a range of issues which are central to current debates, from the decline of class conflict and the disillusionment with established political institutions to the crisis of the welfare state. It remains essential reading for students of sociology, politics and the social sciences generally.

Legitimation Crisis

L'avenir de la nature humaine. Vers un eugénisme libéral?

Nesta obra, o autor procura reconstruir passo a passo o discurso filosófico da modernidade, tomando como ponto de partida a perspectiva proposta pela crítica neo-estruturalista da razão.

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O discurso filosófico da modernidade

Over the past 25 years, Jürgen Habermas has presented what is arguably the most coherent and wide-ranging defence of the project of European unification and of parallel developments towards a politically integrated world society. In developing his key concepts of the transnationalisation of democracy and the constitutionalisation of international law, Habermas offers the main players in the struggles over the fate of the European Union (the politicians, the political parties and the publics of the member states) a way out of the current economic and political crisis, should they choose to follow it. In the title essay Habermas addresses the challenges and threats posed by the current banking and public debt crisis in the Eurozone for European unification. He is harshly critical of the incrementalist, technocratic policies advocated by the German government in particular, which are being imposed at the expense of the populations of the economically weaker, crisis-stricken countries and are undermining solidarity between the member states. He argues that only if the technocratic approach is replaced by a deeper democratization of the European institutions can the European Union fulfil its promise as a model for how rampant market capitalism can once again be brought under political control at the supranational level. This volume reflects the impressive scope of Habermas?s recent writings on European themes, including theoretical treatments of the complex legal and political issues at stake, interventions on current affairs, and reflections on the lives and works of major European philosophers and intellectuals. Together the essays provide eloquent testimony to the enduring relevance of the work of one of the most influential and far-sighted public intellectuals in the world today, and are essential reading for all philosophers, legal scholars and social scientists interested in European and global issues.

The Lure of Technocracy

Annie Ernaux

Esther Kinsky

Eva Illouz

Nicolas Mahler

Hartmut Rosa

Clemens Setz

Katja Petrowskaja

Oliver Nachtwey

Sibylle Lewitscharoff

Philippe Garnier

Frédéric Joly

Joëlle Zask

Les plus grands esprits européens du moment témoignent de leur vie de lecteur " Joyeuse chasse aux livres ! " Ainsi l'écrivaine Sibylle Lewitscharoff souhaite-t-elle la bienvenue au lecteur de ce volume. Une chasse aux livres, comme un jeu enfantin dont émanerait une joie mêlée d'ivresse. Par un mystérieux sortilège, il suffirait qu'on en trouve un pour que trois autres apparaissent à sa place. On en aurait pour toute une vie. Ici, la partie de chasse se joue à treize. Treize écrivains – romanciers, philosophes, sociologues, essayistes, mais aussi un auteur de bande dessinée – se lancent à la poursuite des livres pour dire le miracle de la lecture et expliciter le sens qu'elle revêt dans nos sociétés. À les lire, le geste d'ouvrir un livre semble relever d'une aventure inépuisable, profondément singulière. Car lire, ce n'est pas – du moins pas seulement – cette activité tellement encouragée qu'elle en deviendrait presque suspecte. Elle peut bel et bien engager " la totalité de l'être ", comme l'écrit Annie Ernaux. C'est cet engagement que décrivent, de manière tour à tour intime et théorique, les contributeurs de ce volume. Vous tenez ainsi entre vos mains une bibliothèque aux portes dérobées. Chacune mène vers d'autres bibliothèques et d'autres portes dérobées. Les raisons de lire sont innombrables. En voici déjà treize.

Pourquoi lire

Barbara Fultner

Essays by Jurgen Habermas on truth, objectivity, normativity, naturalism, and realism after the linguistic turn.

Truth and Justification

Jürgen Habermas’s book The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, first published in 1962, has long been recognized as one of the most important works of twentieth-century social thought. Blending philosophy and social history, it offered an account of the public sphere as a domain that mediates between civil society and the state in which citizens could discuss matters of common concern and participate in democratic decision-making through the formation of public opinion. Now, in view of the digital revolution and the resulting crisis of democracy, he returns to this important topic. In this new book Habermas focuses on digital media, in particular social media, which are increasingly relegating traditional mass media to the background. While the new media initially promised to empower users, this promise is being undermined by their algorithm-steered platform structure that promotes self-enclosed informational ‘bubbles’ and discursive ‘echo chambers’ in which users split into a plurality of pseudo-publics that are largely closed off from one other. Habermas argues that, without appropriate regulation of digital media, this new structural transformation is in danger of hollowing out the institutions through which democracies can shape social and economic processes and address urgent collective problems, ranging from growing social inequality to the climate crisis.

A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere and Deliberative Politics

Jürgen Habermas

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