Habermas and Pragmatism

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Mitchell Aboulafia, Myra Bookman, and Cathy Kemp
Routledge, Dec 6, 2012 - Philosophy - 256 pages

There are few living thinkers who have enjoyed the eminence and reown of Jürgen Hamermas. His work has been highly influential not only in philosopy, but also in the fields of politics, sociology and law. This is the first collection dedicated to exploring the connections between his body of work ahd America's most significant philosophical movement, pragmatism.

Habermas and Pragmatism considers the influence of pragmatism on Habermas's thought and the tensions between Habermasian social theory and pragmatism. Essays by distinguished pragmatists, legal and critical theorists, and Habermas cover a range of subjects including the philosophy of language, the nature of rationality, democracy, objectivity, transcendentalism, aesthetics, and law. The collection also addresses the relationship to Habermas of Kant, Peirce, Mead, Dewey, Piaget, Apel, Brandom and Rorty.

 

Contents

Introduction
1
Transcendentalism and reason
15
Law and democracy
81
Language and aesthetic experience
139
Comparative studies
183
some concluding remarks
223
Reflections on pragmatism
225
OnJohn Deweys The Quest for Certainty
229
Index
234
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About the author (2012)

Mitchell Aboiulafia is Professor of Philosophy, Myra Bookman and Cathy Kemp are both lecturers of philosophy, all at the University of Colorado at Denver.

Bibliographic information

TitleHabermas and Pragmatism
EditorsMitchell Aboulafia, Myra Bookman, and Cathy Kemp
PublisherRoutledge, 2012
ISBN1135641390, 9781135641399
Length256 pages
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