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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 $20.88! new only from $21.33!
2	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 $17.00! new only from $17.00! \| SVS
3	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 $28.35! new only from $30.72! \| first editions \| 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 $16.00! new only from $16.00! \| SVS
5	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 $9.65! new only from $9.65! \| SVS
6	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 $6.59! new only from $21.99! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Habermas Reader more books like this by Jurgen Habermas, Professor Steven Seidman (Editor) add to wishlist This book provides a comprehensive introduction to, and selection from, Jurgen Habermas's writings from the early 1960s to the present. The book is divided into seven sections, covering the principal areas of Habermas's work. Each section includes an introduction and a selection of substantial extracts from relevant books. In the general ... see all copies from $9.60! new only from $14.00! \| first editions \| SVS
8	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 $8.81! new only from $8.81! \| SVS
9	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 $8.49! new only from $36.00! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Between Naturalism and Religion: Philosophical Essays more books like this by Jurgen Habermas, Ciaran Cronin (Translator) add to wishlist Two countervailing trends mark the intellectual tenor of our age the spread of naturalistic worldviews and religious orthodoxies. Advances in biogenetics, brain research, and robotics are clearing the way for the penetration of an objective scientific self-understanding of persons into everyday life. For philosophy, this trend is associated with ... see all copies from $19.95! new only from $19.95! \| SVS
11 view cover	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 $11.00! new only from $24.00! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Postmetaphysical Thinking more books like this by Jurgen Habermas, Ja1/4rgen Habermas, William Mark Hohengarten (Translator) add to wishlist This collection of Habermas's recent essays on philosophical topics continues the analysis begun in The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity. In a short introductory essay, he outlines the sources of twentieth-century philosophizing, its major themes, and the range of current debates. The remainder of the essays can be seen as his contribution to ... see all copies from $16.00! new only from $16.27! \| first editions
13 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 $2.95! new only from $14.02! \| first editions
14 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 $3.28! new only from $25.20! \| SVS
15 view cover	The Divided West more books like this by Jurgen Habermas, Ciaran Cronin (Translator) add to wishlist Make no mistake, the normative authority of the United States of America lies in ruins. Such is the judgment of the most influential thinker in Europe today reflecting on the political repercussions of the war in Iraq. The decision to go to war in Iraq, without the explicit backing of a Security Council Resolution, opened up a deep fissure in the ... see all copies from $15.23! new only from $15.98! \| 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 $14.66! new only from $18.43! \| first editions
17 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 $8.37! new only from $11.66! \| SVS
18 view cover	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 $7.95! new only from $14.87! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Time of Transitions more books like this by Jurgen Habermas, Ciaran Cronin (Editor), Max Pensky (Translator) add to wishlist We live in a time of turbulent change when many of the frameworks that have characterized our societies over the last few centuries - such as the international order of sovereign nation-states - are being called into question. In this new volume of essays and interviews, Habermas focuses his attention on these processes of change and provides some ... see all copies from $18.33! new only from $18.33! \| SVS
20 view cover	The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: 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 $29.13! new only from $29.13!
21 view cover	The Postnational Constellation: Political Essays more books like this by Jurgen Habermas add to wishlist Does a global economy render the traditional nation-state obsolete? Does globalization threaten democratic life, or offer it new forms of expression? What are the implications of globalization for our understanding of politics and of national and cultural identities? In "The Postnational Constellation", the leading German philosopher and social ... see all copies from $19.88! new only from $19.88! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Entre Razon y Religion: Dialectica de la Secularizacion more books like this by Jurgen Habermas, Joseph Ratzinger, Pablo Largo (Translator) add to wishlist 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. ... see all copies from $4.94! new only from $4.94! \| SVS
23	Observations on "The Spiritual Situation of the Age" more books like this by Jurgen Habermas, Jrgen Habermas (Editor), Ja1/4rgen Habermas (Editor) add to wishlist The essays in this collection provide an unusually intense portrait of a society and an age. see all copies from $6.25! first editions
24 view cover	Public Deliberation and Public Culture: The Writings of Bernhard Peters, 1993-2005 more books like this by Hartmut Wessler (Editor), Professor Keith Tribe (Translator), Jurgen Habermas (Foreword by) add to wishlist This book includes a preface by Jurgen Habermas, renowned German philosopher and sociologist - Bernhard Peters was his PhD student. Peters was well-known in Germany, where his work has reached almost classic status. This is the first time Peters' work has been made available in English.Offering original insights on the prospects for a European, or ... see all copies from $71.95! new only from $71.95! \| SVS
25	The Tanner Lectures on Human Values more books like this by Sterling M McMurrin add to wishlist see all copies from $2.20! signed copies \| first editions

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