Habermas : an intellectual biography / Matthew G. Specter.
"This book follows postwar Germany's leading philosopher and social thinker, Jürgen Habermas, through four decades of political and constitutional struggle over the shape of liberal democracy in Germany. Habermas's most influential theories - of the public sphere, communicative actio...
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from EBSCO |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010. |
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Table of Contents:
- The making of a '58er : Habermas's search for a method
- Habermas as synthesizer of German constitutional theory, 1958-63
- From the 'great refusal' to the theory of communicative action, 1961-81
- Civil disobedience, constitutional patriotism, and modernity : rethinking Germany's link to 'the West' (westbindung), 1978-87
- Learning from the Bonn Republic : recasting democratic theory, 1984-1996.