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This long-awaited book sets out the implications of Habermas's theory of communicative action for moral theory Discourse ethics attempts to reconstruct a moral point of view from which normative claims can be impartially judged. The theory of justice it develops replaces Kant's categorical imperative with a procedure of justification based on reasoned agreement among participants in practical discourse. Habermas connects communicative ethics to the theory of social action via an examination of research in the social psychology of moral and interpersonal development. He aims to show that our basic moral intuitions spring from something deeper and more universal than contingent features of our tradition, namely from normative presuppositions of social interaction that belong to the repertoire of competent agents in any society. Jurgen Habermas is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt. Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action is included in the series Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought, edited by Thomas McCarthy.

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A fine translation of Habermas's Moralbewusstsein und kommunikatives Handeln (Frankfurt am Main), 1983), with an added essay on Kant and Hegel for this English-language edition, this is an excellent addition to the MIT series "Studies in Contemporary Social Thought." These particular essays are important because they directly spell out the implications of Habermas's later theory of communicative action for recent moral theory (see his two-volume set, Theory of Communicative Action; v.2, CH, Sep'88). With his own cognitivist "discourse ethics," Habermas seeks to refute the moral skeptic by replacing Kant's all-too-monological categorical imperative with a procedural theory of justice from which normative claims may be impartially adjudicated by participants in a concrete practical discourse. Anglo-American readers will find his lengthy third essay, "Discourse Ethics," especially helpful. Here Habermas distinguishes his work from that of MacIntyre, Strawson, Toulmin, Hare, K. Baier, Gert, and Rawls. He also takes on Continental "analytic" writers such as Tugendhat and Apel. Readers in both philosophy and the social sciences will like his second and fourth articles in which he reformulates R.L. Selman's account of sociocognitive development as a refinement to Kohlberg's theory of moral development. This book belongs in any collection supporting majors in philosophy and the various social sciences. -R. M. Stewart, Austin College

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Jurgen Habermas is a German sociologist who studied at the universities of Gottingen, Zurich, and Bonn. He taught at Frankfurt am Main, Marburg, and Heidelberg before becoming professor of philosophy at the University of Frankfurt. His works, widely translated, have made him one of the most influential social theorists of our time.

Habermas is considered by some to be an intellectual heir to Max Weber and what has been called the Frankfurt School. His work has centered mainly on the role of communication and technology in changing patterns of social relations, human activity, and values. An outspoken advocate of the Enlightenment and a champion of reason, he has also cautioned that the technical rationality associated with modern capitalism often functions as ideology and may stand in the way of human progress.

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