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Book SynopsisIn the past decade the work of Jurgen Habermas has sparked off a series of lively debates over modernity and post--modernity, the nature of language, the interplay of law and politics and the dilemmas of morality.
Trade Review"is to be highly recommended as a basic critical commentary for both specialist and non-specialist alike."
Philosophical Studies "A valuable resource not only in providing an interest perspective on Habermas's work but in offering a guide to much of the relevant literature on it." Philosophical Quarterly .
"A clear, cogent, sympathetic-critical discussion of issues." James L Marsh, Fordham University .Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
1. The Dilemmas of Modernity
2. The Strategy of the Theory of Communicative Action
3. The Problems in the Theory of Communicative Action
4. Discourse Ethics
5. Communication and the Law
6. Reading Habermas: Modernity versus Post-Modernity Jurgen Habermas: A Bibliography by Rene Gortzen
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