Overview

There are few living thinkers who have enjoyed the eminence and reown of Jurgen Hamermas. His work has been highly influential not only in philosopy, but also in the fields of politics, sociology and law. This is the first collection dedicated to exploring the connections between his body of work ahd America's most significant philosophical movement, pragmatism. Habermas and Pragmatism considers the influence of pragmatism on Habermas's thought and the tensions between Habermasian social theory and pragmatism. Essays by distinguished pragmatists, legal and critical theorists, and Habermas cover a range of subjects including the philosophy of language, the nature of rationality, democracy, objectivity, transcendentalism, aesthetics, and law. The collection also addresses the relationship to Habermas of Kant, Peirce, Mead, Dewey, Piaget, Apel, Brandom and Rorty. Jurgen Habermas, Karl-Otto Apel, Myra Bookman, David Ingram, Cristina Lafont, Lenore Langsdorf, Joseph Margolis, Frank I. Michelman, Tom Rockmore, Sandra B. Rosenthal and Richard Shusterman

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Author:   Mitchell Aboulafia ,  Myra Bookman ,  and Cathy Kemp
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9780415234580

ISBN 10:   0415234581
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   11 April 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction, Mitchell Aboulafia; Part 1 Transcendentalism and Reason; Chapter 1 Regarding the Relationship of Morality, Law and Democracy, Karl-Otto Apel; Chapter 2 Vicissitudes of Transcendental Reason, Joseph Margolis; Chapter 3 The Epistemological Promise of Pragmatism, Tom Rockmore; Chapter 4 Forming Competence, Myra Bookman; Part 2 Law and Democracy; Chapter 5 The Sirens of Pragmatism Versus the Priests of Proceduralism, David Ingram; Chapter 6 The Problem of Constitutional Interpretive Disagreement, Frank I. Michelman; Part 3 Language and Aesthetic Experience; Chapter 7 Reconstructing the Fourth Dimension, Lenore Langsdorf; Chapter 8 Habermas, Pragmatism, and the Problem of Aesthetics, Richard Shusterman; Part 4 Comparative Studies; Chapter 9 Is Objectivity Perspectival?, Cristina Lafont; Chapter 10 Habermas, Dewey, and the Democratic Self, Sandra B. Rosenthal; Chapter 11 Postscript, Jürgen Habermas;

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Both pragmatism and the work of Habermas command growing attention in the philosophical world. This is a splendid volume of essays by outstanding scholars, assessing the relation of Habermas to pragmatism. The excellence of the essays and Habermas's response in the form of reflections on pragmatism make this book essential reading for anyone interested in the remarkable convergence of philosophical currents today. <br>-John Lachs, Vanderbilt University <br>

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Mitchell Aboiulafia is Professor of Philosophy, Myra Bookman and Cathy Kemp are both lecturers of philosophy, all at the University of Colorado at Denver.

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