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 ...
These essays by the contemporary German philosopher and sociologist, Jurgen Habermas, were written between 1958 and 1979. In them, he sketches his impressions - as if he were conducting a living dialog - of the giants of recent German thought, several of whom were his teachers.
Recent developments in biotechnology and genetic research are raising complex ethical questions concerning the legitimate scope and limits of genetic intervention. As we begin to contemplate the possibility of intervening in the human genome to prevent diseases, we cannot help but feel that the human species might soon be able to take its ...
A Berlin Republic brings together writings on the new, united Germany by one of their most original and trenchant commentators, J Habermas. Among other topics, he addresses the consequences of German history, the challenges and perils of the post-Wall era, and Germany's place in contemporary Europe. Here, as in his earlier The Past as Future, ...
Uno de los ms connotados filsofos de la actualidad, Jrgen Habermas, y el entonces prefecto de la Congregacin para la Doctrina de la Fe, Joseph Ratzinger, nombrado slo unos meses despus de que se realiz el dilogo que esta obra documenta como papa Benedicto XVI, intercambian puntos de vista sobre los fundamentos de un orden social libre y pacfico. ...
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