Habermas: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) - Softcover

Finlayson, James Gordon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192840959 ISBN 13: 9780192840950

Verlag: OUP Oxford, 2005

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This book gives a clear and readable overview of the philosophical work of Jürgen Habermas, the most influential German philosopher alive today, who has commented widely on subjects such as Marxism, the importance and effectiveness of communication, the reunification of Germany, and the European Union.
Gordon Finlayson provides readers with a clear and readable overview of Habermas's forbiddingly complex philosophy using concrete examples and accessible language. He then goes on to analyse both the theoretical underpinnings of Habermas's social theory, and its more concrete applications in the fields of ethics, politics, and law; and concludes with an examination how Habermas's social and political theory informs his writing on contemporary, political, and social problems.

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James Gordon Finlayson is a lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sussex, and was previously Lecturer in Post-Kantian European Philosophy at York University. He has published widely on Habermas, and contributed to Habermas: A Critical Reader (Blackwell). He is the author of a forthcoming monograph on problems in Habermas's Discourse Ethics.

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• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0192840959
• ISBN 13: 9780192840950
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192
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