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Jurgen Habermas is unquestionably one of the foremost philosophers writing today. His notions of communicative action and rationality have exerted a profound influence within philosophy and the social sciences. This volume examines the historical and intellectual contexts out of which Habermas' work emerged, and offers an overview of his main ideas, including those in his most recent publication. Amongst the topics discussed are his relationship to the Frankfurt School of critical theory and Marx, his unique contributions to the philosophy of the social sciences, the concept of 'communicative ethics', and the critique of post-modernism. New readers and non-specialists will find this the most convenient, accessible guide to Habermas currently available. Advanced students will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of Habermas.

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• 1 Introduction Stephen White
• 2 The heritage: Habermas and Adorno Romand Coles
• What remains of Marx?
• 3 Communicative rationality: philosophical and social scientific implications
• The idea of communicative rationality
• Critical theory as a research programme
• 4 Normative democracy
• Practical discourse and communicatve ethics
• Rechtstheorie Kenneth Baynes
• Universalism and the situated critic
• 5 Democracy
• Democracy and self
• Discourse and democractic practices
• 6 The defense of modernity
• Habermas' critique of Nietzsche and his progeny
• Modernity and postmodernity

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Author of The Recent Work of J^D"urgen Habermas (CH, Oct'88) and Political Theory and Postmodernism (CH, Apr'92), White has compiled here an excellent set of essays, especially on Habermas's most recent reflections on discourse theory. Following White's very helpful introductory essay sketching the scope of this volume are three contextualizing essays on, respectively, Habermas's relation to Adorno (R. Coles), to Marx (N. Love), and to German political culture, especially since reunification (M. Pensky). Three essays in part 3, by J. Dryzek, G. Warne, and J.D. Moon, explore the relation between Habermas's attempts to clarify "communicative rationality" and the social sciences and ethical theory. The three essays in part 4, by M. Warren, K. Baynes, and S. Chambers, are on "discursive democracy," or how Habermas's discursive ethics based on communicative rationality does and does not help political theorists make sense of specific democratic practices. Two essays on Habermas's attempts to defend and rehabilitate "modernity" and the Enlightenment against postmodernist critics conclude the volume. For philosophers, the unique strength of this collection is that eight of these 13 writers are political scientists with excellent training in political theory. This viewpoint is especially helpful with such later works by Habermas as Factizitaet und Geltung. Highly recommended for collections in philosophy and political theory. Upper-division undergraduate; graduate; faculty.