Habermas : introduction and analysis / David Ingram
- Author
- Ingram, David, 1952-
- Published
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010.
- Physical Description
- xvii, 360 pages ; 24 cm
- Contents
- Abbreviations for Titles of Works / Habermas -- 1. A Public Intellectual Committed to Reason -- Habermas's Life -- From the Critique of Ideology to the Dialectic of Enlightenment -- Outline of Chapters -- 2. Habermas's Defense of Psychoanalytic Social Science -- The Positivism Debate in German Social Science -- Modern Nihilism: The Crisis of Science and the Theory/Practice Problem -- Knowledge and Human Interests -- A Critique of Knowledge and Human Interests -- 3. The Linguistic Turn -- TCA and the Dialectic of Enlightenment -- Situating Habermas's Philosophy of Language -- Transcendental Philosophy of Language as Rational Reconstruction -- Universal Pragmatics and Formal Semantics -- Formal Pragmatics and Speech Act Theory -- Discourse -- Communicative and Strategic Speech Acts -- A Critique of Universal Pragmatics -- 4. Knowledge and Truth Revisited -- Subject-Object Paradigms of Knowledge -- Internal Realism -- Reference and Meaning -- Knowledge and Evolution -- Moral Realism -- Is Formal Pragmatism a Defensible Alternative to Realism and Contextualism? -- 5. Discourse Ethics -- Practical Reason: Delimiting the Domain of the Moral -- The Priority of the Right over the Good -- Modernity and Moral Development -- Deontological Moral Theory and Universalizability: Kant and Rawls -- Moral Cognitivism versus Moral Skepticism -- Moral Argumentation as Discourse -- Neo-Aristotelian Objections and the Abortion Controversy -- Justification and Application -- Discourse Ethics Applied: Genetic Testing and the Future of Human Nature -- Problems and Paradoxes -- Habermas's Ideal of Argumentation: A Final Assessment -- 6. Law and Democracy: Part I: The Foundational Rights -- Modern Law and Morality: A Paradoxical Wedding of Facts and Norms -- Situating Habermas's Theory of Law and Democracy: Some Contemporary Debates -- The Sociological Genesis of Modern Law -- The System of Rights -- Negative and Positive Rights (Duties) -- Constitutional Foundations -- Human Rights: Subsistence as a Test Case for a Juridical Conception of Rights -- Final Thoughts on the Procedural Ideal of Deliberative Democracy -- 7. Law and Democracy: Part II: Power and the Clash of Paradigms -- Democracy and the Powers of Government -- The Separation of Powers -- The Transmission of Communicative Power: From Public Sphere to Government Administration -- Discourse and Adjudication -- The Proceduralist Paradigm of Law and Democracy -- A Concluding Assessment -- 8. Law and Democracy: Part III: Applying the Proceduralist Paradigm -- Separation of Church and State: The Public/Private Distinction -- Gender Difference and the Law -- Multiculturalism -- Immigration -- 9. Law and Democracy: Part IV: Social Complexity and a Critical Assessment -- Questioning the Proceduralist Paradigm -- Substantive Economic Justice and Workplace Democracy -- The Technological Dimension of Democracy -- Revolution and Democracy -- 10. Crisis and Pathology: The Future of Democracy in a Global Age -- Capitalism and the Crisis of Democracy -- Social Pathologies and the Colonization of the Lifeworld -- Globalization: The New Challenge -- Cosmopolitan Democracy and Global Politics as a Response to Global Crisis -- Politics and the Rule of Law in International Relations -- The Constitutionalization of International Relations -- The Limits of Democratization: A Critical Assessment -- 11. Postsecular Postscript: Modernity and Its Discontents -- Marx on the Evolution of Modern Society -- Weber on Modernization and the Problem of Meaning -- Secularization and the Rationalization of the Lifeworld -- Between Past and Future: Art, Religion, and the Dialectic of Enlightenment Revisited -- Appendix A. Explaining Action -- Appendix B. Understanding Action -- Appendix C. Habermas and Brandom -- Appendix D. Developmental Psychology -- Appendix E. Rational Choice Theory -- Appendix F. Systems Theory.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780801448799 (cloth : alk. paper)
0801448794 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780801476013 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0801476011 (pbk. : alk. paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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