Habermas and pragmatism / edited by Mitchell Aboulafia, Myra Bookman & Cathy Kemp.

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TextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 244 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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online resource

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9781135641320
1135641323
9780203714713
0203714717

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Habermas and pragmatism.DDC classification:

193 22

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B3258.H324 H193 2002eb

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08.25

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Contents:

Regarding the relationship of morality, law and democracy : on Habermas's Philosophy of law (1992) from a transcendental-pragmatic point of view / Karl-otto Apel -- Vicissitudes of transcendental reason / Joseph Margolis -- The epistemological promise of pragmatism / Tom Rockmore -- Forming competence : Habermas on reconstructing worlds and context-transcendent reason / Myra Bookman -- The sirens of pragmatism versus the priests of proceduralism : Habermas and American legal realism / David Ingram -- The problem of constitutional interpretive disagreement : can "discourses of application" help? / Frank I. Michelman -- Reconstructing the fourth dimension : a Deweyan critique of Habermas's conception of communicative action / Lenore Langsdorf -- Habermas, pragmatism, and the problem of aesthetics / Richard Shusterman -- Is objectivity perspectival? Reflextions on Brandom's and Habermas's pragmatist conceptions of objectivity / Cristina Lafont -- Habermas, Dewey, and the democratic self / Sandra B. Rosenthal -- Postscript : some concluding remarks / Jurgen Habermas.

Summary: Annotation There are few living thinkers who have enjoyed the eminence and reown of Jürgen 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 Pragmatismconsiders 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.

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Annotation There are few living thinkers who have enjoyed the eminence and reown of Jürgen 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 Pragmatismconsiders 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.

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