Jurgen Habermas

PART ONE: THE FOUNDATIONS OF HABERMAS'S PROJECT Habermas as a Critical Theorist The Critical Theory of J[um]urgen Habermas - Thomas McCarthy Empirico-Analytic and Critical Social Science - Albrecht Wellmer Paradigm-Core and Theory-Dynamics in Critical Social Theory - Hauke Bronkhorst People and Programs Social Theorist at the Institute at Last, Valued by Adorno But Seen by Horkheimer as too Left-Wing - Rolf Wiggershaus Habermas, Hermeneutics and Critical Theory Hermeneutics and Social Science - Hans-Georg Gadamer Ethics and Culture - Paul Ricoeur Habermas and Gadamer in Dialogue The Modernist Left - Ingrid Scheibler Habermas's Critique of Gadamer I Should Intellectual History Take a Linguistic Turn? - Martin Jay Reflections on the Habermas-Gadamer Debate Hermeneutics and the Critique of Ideology - Georgia Warnke Communicative Action Habermas on Communicative Action - Ernst Tugendhat Communicative Action and Philosophy - David Rasmussen The Critique of Functionalist Reason - Seyla Benhabib Formal Pragmatics and Social Criticism - James Bohman Social Labor and Communicative Action - Marie Fleming Communication and Reconciliation - Axel Honneth Habermas's Critique of Adorno The Modernity / Postmodernity Debate Introduction - Richard Bernstein Habermas and Modernity Deconstruction, Postmodernism and Philosophy - Christopher Norris Habermas on Derrida The Dilemmas of Modernity - David Rasmussen PART TWO: LAW AND POLITICS Law and Democratic Theory Reply to Habermas - John Rawls How Is Valid Law Possible? - David Rasmussen Critique of Habermas's Contribution to the Sociology of Law - Klaus Eder Democracy and the Rechstaat - Ken Baynes Habermas' Faktizit[um]at und Geltung Introduction - Mathieu Deflem Law in Habermas's Theory of Communicative Action Crisis Tendencies, Legitimation, and the State - David Held Dworkin, Habermas, and the CLS Movement on Moral Criticism in Law - David Ingram Between Radicalism and Resignation - William Scheuerman Democratic Theory in Habermas's Between Facts and Norms Habermas's Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy - William Rehg Jurisprudence and Validity? - David Rasmussen The Public Sphere The Globalization of the Public Sphere - James Boham On the Relation of Morality to Politics - Thomas McCarthy Models of Public Space - Seyla Benhabib Hannah Arendt, the Liberal Tradition and J[um]urgen Habermas From a Literary to a Political Public Sphere - Jean Cohen and Andrew Arato Culture and Society Habermas, Derrida, and the Function of Philosophy - Richard Rorty The Metaphor of the Covenant in Habermas - Sander Griffioen Feminism What's Critical about Critical Theory - Nancy Fraser The Case of Habermas and Gender The Cultural Foundations of Public Policy - Simone Chambers Feminism and Habermas's Discourse Ethics - Johanna Meehan The Politics of Vulnerability - Barbara Fultner On the Role of Idealism in Bulter and Habermas PART THREE: ETHICS Discourse Ethics The Communicative Paradigm in Moral Theory - Alessandro Ferrara Discourse and the Moral Point of View - William Rehg Habermas, Communicative Ethics and the Development of Moral Consciousness - Stephen White Communicative Ethics and Current Controversies in Practical Philosophy - Seyla Benhabib Discourse Ethics and Civil Society - Jean Cohen Habermas, Values and the Rational Internal Structure of Communication - Tony Couture Rethinking Discourse Ethics The Formal Thought of J[um]urgen Habermas from the Perspective of a Universal Material Ethics - Enrique Dussel Discourse Ethics and Liberation Ethics - Eduardo Mendieta Discourse Ethics and Ethical Realism - Felmon Davis A Realist Realignment of Discourse Ethics Practical Reasoning Impartial Application of Moral and Legal Norms - Klaus G[um]unther A Contribution to Discourse Ethics Universalisms - Alessandro Ferrara Proceduralist, Contextualist and Prudential Normatively Grounding Critical Theory - Karl-Otto Apel Intractable Conflicts and Moral Objectivity - William Rehg A Dialogical, Problem-Based Approach Communicative Competence and Normative Force - Jonathan Culler MacIntyre and Habermas on Practical Reasons - John Doody Autonomy and Authenticity The Ambiguity of Habermas's Notion of Generalizability - Alessandro Ferrara The Complexity of the Subject, Narrative Identity and the Modernity of the South - Carlos Thiebaut Habermas, Autonomy and the Identity of the Self - Maeve Cooke Conflict or Complement? The Role of the Will in Post-Conventional Personal Identity - James Swindal Habermas's Reading of Kierkegaard - Martin Matustik PART FOUR: COMMUNICATIVE RATIONALITY, FORMAL PRAGMATICS, SPEECH ACT THEORY AND TRUTH Communicative Rationality The Lifeworld Background of Reflective Acceptability - James Swindal The Problem of Foundationalism in Habermas's Discourse Ethics - Joseph Heath The Two Meanings of Communicative Rationality - Martin Seel Remarks on Habermas's Critique of the Plural Concept of Reason Language and Society - Charles Taylor Formal Pragmatics and Speech Act Theory Speech Acts and Validity Claims - Maeve Cooke The Unhappy Marriage of Hermeneutics and Functionalism - Hans Joas Formal Pragmatics and Social Criticism - James Bohman Is There Any Normative Claim Internal to Stating Facts? - Andreas Dorschel Nature, History and the Logic of Development On the Use and Abuse of Memory - Max Pensky Habermas, `Anamnestic Solidarity' and the Historikerstreit Habermas's Developmental Logic - David Owen Universal or Eurocentric New Science, New Nature - Steven Vogel The Habermas-Marcuse Debate Revisited Collective Learning - Piet Styrdom Habermas's Concessions and Their Implication Truth What Is a Validity Claim? - Joseph Heath Rational Acceptability and Truth - Cristina Lafont Remarks on the Habermas/Rawls Debate A Critique of Habermas's Consensus Theory of Truth - Alessandro Ferrara Habermas's Transformation of Truth Semantics - James Swindal Habermas's Consensus Theory of Truth - Mary Hesse The Problems of a Consensus Theory of Truth - Nicholas Rescher