Jurgen Habermas 1921- Frankfurt

 

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a theory of 'communicative action' - commitment to values of truth, critique, and rational consensus, based on  the regulative precept of an 'ideal speech-situation', a public sphere of uncoerced participant debate wherein those values might achieve their fullest expression.

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Commentaries

The Critical Theory of Jurgen Habermas

See also

• The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
• On the Logic of the Social Sciences
• Knowledge and Human Interests
• Theory and Practice
• Towards a Rational Society
• Legitimation Crisis
• Communication and the Evolution of Society
• The Theory of Communicative Action
• Philosophical-Political Profiles
• The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity
• The New Conservatism
• Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action
• Postmetaphysical Thinking
• Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy
• On the Pragmatics of Social Interaction
• The Inclusion of the Other
• The Postnational Constellation

The best interpretation in English of Habermas's work is still Thomas McCarthy's The Critical Theory of Jurgen Habermas (MIT Press, 1978).

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