Knowledge and Human Interests

Jurgen Habermas. Translated by Jeremy J. Shapiro

ISBN 10: 0745604595 / ISBN 13: 9780745604596

Verlag: Polity Press, Cambridge, UK, 2007

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PAPERBACK 2007 reprint. xiii+392 pages. 21.5x14cm. Flat spine has a light crease. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref FtXNLP.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Knowledge and Human Interests
• Verlag: Polity Press, Cambridge, UK
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0745604595
• ISBN-13: 9780745604596
• Einband: Paperback
• Auflage: Reprint
• Zustand: Very Good Plus

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

Habermas describes Knowledge and Human Interests as an attempt to reconstruct the prehistory of modern positivism with the intention of analysing the connections between knowledge and human interests. Convinced of the increasing historical and social importance of the natural and behavioural sciences, Habermas makes clear how crucial it is to understand the central meanings and justifications of these sciences. He argues that for too long the relationship between philosophy and science has been distorted.

In this extraordinarily wide-ranging book, Habermas examines the principal positions of modern philosophy - Kantianism, Marxism, positivism, pragmatism, hermeneutics, the philosophy of science, linguistic philosophy and phenomenology - to lay bare the structure of the processes of enquiry that determine the meaning and the validity of all our statements which claim objectivity.

This edition contains a postscript written by Habermas for the second German edition of Knowledge and Human Interests.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jürgen Habermas is a German philosopher and sociologist in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. He is perhaps best known for his theories on communicative rationality and the public sphere. In 2014, Prospect readers chose Habermas as one of their favourites among the "world's leading thinkers".