BOOKS by Jurgen Habermas

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1	The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry Into a Category of Bourgeois Society more books like this by Jurgen Habermas add to wishlist This major work retraces the emergence and development of the Bourgeois public sphere - that is, a sphere which was distinct from the state and in which citizens could discuss issues of general interest. In analysing the historical transformations of this sphere, Habermas recovers a concept which is of crucial significance for current debates in ... see all copies from $12.23! new only from $21.33! \| SVS
2	Knowledge and human interests more books like this by Jürgen Habermas add to wishlist Habermas describes Knowledge and Human Interests as an attempt to reconstruct the prehistory of modern positivism with the intention of analysing the connections between knowledge and human interests. Convinced of the increasing historical and social importance of the natural and behavioural sciences, Habermas makes clear how crucial it is to ... see all copies from $5.25! new only from $30.50! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Theory of Communicative Action, Volume 1: Reason and the Rationalization of Society more books like this by Jurgen Habermas, Thomas McCarthy (Translator) add to wishlist The key to his notion of reaching understanding is the possibility of using reasons or grounds to gain intersubjective recognition for criticizable validity claims. see all copies from $17.49! new only from $34.50! \| SVS
4	The Theory of Communicative Action, Volume 2: Lifeword and System: A Critique of Functionalist Reason more books like this by Jurgen Habermas, Thomas McCarthy (Translator) add to wishlist "One of the broadest, most comprehensive, elaborate and intensely theoretical works in social theory. Social theory and philosophy may never be the same again." (Philosophy and Social Criticism) see all copies from $23.95! new only from $32.50! \| SVS
5	Communication and the evolution of society more books like this by Jurgen Habermas add to wishlist In this important volume Habermas outlines the views which form the basis of his critical theory of modern societies. The volume comprises five interlocking essays, which together define the contours of his theory of communication and of his substantive account of social change.'What is Universal Pragmatics?' is the best available statement of ... see all copies from $3.36! new only from $26.40! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Legitimation crisis more books like this by Jürgen Habermas add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $6.06! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Inclusion of the Other: Studies in Political Theory more books like this by Jurgen Habermas, Pablo De Greiff (Editor), Ciaran Cronin (Editor) add to wishlist The Inclusion of the Other contains Habermas's most recent work in political theory and political philosophy. Here Habermas picks up some of the central themes of Between Facts and Norms and elaborates them in relation to current political debates.One of the distinctive features of Habermas's work has been its approach to the problem of political ... see all copies from $14.74! new only from $21.53! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy more books like this by Jurgen Habermas add to wishlist In Between Facts and Norms Habermas works out the legal and political implications of his theoretical approach, bringing to fruition the project announced more than three decades ago in The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. Between Facts and Norms is a major contribution to current debates on the role of law and the prospects for the ... see all copies from $24.98! new only from $30.72! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The philosophical discourse of modernity : twelve lectures more books like this by Jürgen Habermas add to wishlist This critique of French philosophy and the history of German philosophy is a tour de force that has the immediacy and accessibility of the lecture form and the excitement of an encounter across national cultural boundaries as Habermas takes up the challenge posed by the radical critique of reason in contemporary French postmodernism. see all copies from $9.95! new only from $28.43! \| SVS
10	Theory and practice more books like this by Jurgen Habermas add to wishlist Theory and Practice is one of Habermas's major works and is widely recognized as a classic in contemporary and social and political theory.Through a series of highly original historical studies, Habermas re-examines the relations between philosophy, science and politics. Beginning with the classical doctrine of politics as developed by Aristotle, ... see all copies from $7.98! new only from $33.00! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Future of Human Nature more books like this by Jurgen Habermas (Translator), Jrgen Habermas, Ja1/4rgen Habermas add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $11.66! new only from $11.66! \| SVS
12 view cover	Justification and Application: Remarks on Discourse Ethics more books like this by Jurgen Habermas add to wishlist This volume presents Habermas's most recent contributions to ethical theory, expanding and clarifying his controversial theory of discourse ethics. Responding to criticisms of his theory, Habermas defends the claim of discourse ethics to a central position in contemporary moral philosophy. He explains and refines the key concepts of his approach ... see all copies from $16.27! new only from $16.27! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida more books like this by Giovanna Borradori add to wishlist The idea for "Philosophy in a Time of Terror" was born hours after the terrorist attacks on 9/11 and came to realization just weeks later when Giovanna Borradori sat down with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida, in separate interviews, in New York City. Guided by Borradori, Habermas and Derrida evaluated the significance of the most destructive ... see all copies from $6.42! new only from $11.20! \| SVS
14 view cover	On the logic of the social sciences more books like this by Jurgen Habermas add to wishlist This work by Jurgen Habermas - originally published in German in 1967 - is now available in English. This English edition includes several new essays which were published in German during the 1970s and which bring the original text up-to-date. In this wide-ranging work, Habermas presents his views on the nature of the social sciences and their ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $14.82! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Jurgen Habermas on Society and Ethics: A Reader more books like this by Jurgen Habermas, Professor Steven Seidman (Editor) add to wishlist Here for the first time are Habermas's most important writings on society, the state, and social theory collected in one volume. For more than three decades Habermas has consistently attempted to supply foundations for a reconstructed Marxist social theory that provides a critical analysis of modernity. He has defended the position that only if a ... see all copies from $6.69! new only from $30.50! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Moral Conciousness and Communicative Action more books like this by Jurgen Habermas, Ja1/4rgen Habermas, Shierry Weber Nicholsen (Translator) add to wishlist This long-awaited book sets out the implications of Habermas's theory of communicative action for moral theory. see all copies from $9.99! new only from $18.43! \| SVS
17 view cover	Toward a rational society: student protest, science and politics more books like this by Jürgen Habermas add to wishlist Student Protest, Science, and Politics Translated by Jeremy J. Shapiro see all copies from $1.99! new only from $20.36! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Religion and Rationality: Essays on Reason, God and Modernity more books like this by Jurgen Habermas, Ja1/4rgen Habermas add to wishlist Essays by Jurgen Habermas on religion and religious belief. see all copies from $16.27! new only from $16.27! \| SVS
19 view cover	The New Conservatism: Cultural Criticism and the Historian's Debate more books like this by Jurgen Habermas add to wishlist Jurgen Habermas is well known for his scholarly writings on the theoretical foundations of the human sciences. "The New Conservatism" brings to light another side of Habermas' work, showing him to be an incisive commentator on a wide range of contemporary themes. The 1980s have been a crucial decade in the political life of Western democracies in ... see all copies from $4.66! new only from $29.28!
20 view cover	Philosophical Political Profiles more books like this by Jurgen Habermas, F Lawrence (Translator) add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $6.50! new only from $20.99! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	The Dialectic of Secularism: On Reason and Religion more books like this by Joseph Ratzinger, Jrgen Habermas, J'Urgen Habermas add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $6.91! new only from $8.66! \| SVS
22 view cover	Observations on "The Spiritual Situation of the Age": Contemporary German Perspectives more books like this by Jurgen Habermas (Editor), Ja1/4rgen Habermas (Editor), Andrew Buchwalter (Translator) add to wishlist The essays in this collection provide an unusually rich set of original reflections on current German political, social, cultural, religious, and intellectual life. see all copies from $2.69! new only from $12.57! \| first editions
23 view cover	A Berlin Republic: Writings on Germany more books like this by Jurgen Habermas, Steven Rendall (Translator), Peter Uwe Hohendahl (Introduction by) add to wishlist 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, ... see all copies from $3.64! new only from $26.61!
24 view cover	Moral consciousness and communicative action more books like this by Jurgen Habermas add to wishlist In this important book Habermas develops his views on a range of moral and ethical issues. Drawing on his theory of communicative action, Habermas elaborates an original conception of 'discourse ethics', seeking to reconstruct a moral point of view from which normative claims can be impartially judged.Habermas connects communicative ethics to the ... see all copies from $16.00! new only from $29.93!
25	The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere more books like this by Jurgen Habermas, Ja1/4rgen Habermas, Thomas Burger (Translator) add to wishlist This is Jurgen Habermas's most concrete historical-sociological book and one of the key contributions to political thought in the postwar period. see all copies from $65.00! first editions

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