About this title: 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 understand the central meanings and justifications of these sciences. He argues that for too long the relationship between philosophy and science has been distorted.In this extraordinarily wide-ranging book, Habermas examines the principal positions of ...
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Edition: 1st Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press, Boston
Date Published: 1971
ISBN-13:9780807015407ISBN:0807015407
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 356 pages. Square solid copy with a 1" corner crease on front cover, a reading crease along spine on front cover, color fading on spine, and covers show light wear. Interior is unmarked. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Beacon Press,, Boston:
Date Published: 1971.
ISBN-13:9780807015407ISBN:0807015407
Description: Prof. De George's tidy ownership information, else very good clean & sound condition / several closed tears to dust jacket. From the library of Professor Richard T. De George. 356pp. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Beacon Press, Boston
Date Published: 1971
ISBN-13:9780807015407ISBN:0807015407
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Text in English, German. viii, 356 p. 22 cm. Translation of Erkenntnis und Interesse. Includes bibliographical references. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: BEACON
Date Published: 1972
ISBN-13:9780807015414ISBN:0807015415
Description: "For those concerned with the relationships between thought and action, KNOWLEDGE AND HUMAN INTERESTS will quickly be recognized as a brilliant book--and a bold outline for a new social theory. " (Times Literary Supplement) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Beacon Press
Date Published: 1971
ISBN-13:9780807015407ISBN:0807015407
Description: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 0807015407. Dust jacket has light edge-wear & sunning to spine. Gentle softening at spine ends. Otherwise the book is in perfect condition; text is clean, binding tight. Philosophy. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.; 356 pages. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Beacon Press, Boston
Date Published: 1972
Description: Softcover. Fair condition. Will quickly be recognized as a brilliant book-and a bold outline for a new social theory. Includes an Index. read more
Description: Very Good/Very Good. 0807015407 Slightly cocked. Shelf rubbing to edges of DJ spine head & heel, and at tips. Tiny tear in DJ at bottom right tip of front panel. DJ spine color different from front panel due to sunning. Margin of one page creased and corner of last page creased. read more
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"Habermas is simply the worst writer, relative to the complexity of his ideas, that I have ever come across: others are worse writers (Hegel), but have more difficult ideas which they struggle to express. Others have less complex ideas (many analytic philosophers) but express them more clearly. Urgh. This should have been an essay arguing for the 'interested' nature of reason: the claim being that any form of argument or communication at all is necessarily aiming at 'enlightenment,' freeing us from dogmatism. This is interesting. Habermas wants to get to this claim through an immanent critique of positivism. This too is interesting. But giving us a complete rundown of Comte's, Mach's (!!!), Dilthey's, and Peirce's philosophies of science? Not so interesting, or necessary. It's rigorous, sure. But sometimes you just want the straight dope. Not here. Also, part III, on Freud and Nietzsche, is a complete and utter waste of time, even if you buy the idea that psychoanalysis shows one possible way to combine Peirce's philosophy of science approach with Dilthey's hermeneutics."
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