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The Principle of Hope
ISBN: 9780262521994
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 26, 1995
The Principle of Hope is one of the great works of the human spirit. It is a critical history of the utopian vision and a profound exploration of the possible reality of utopia. Even as the world has...
Critique and Disclosure
Critical Theory between Past and Future
ISBN: 9780262516532
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 19, 2011
A provocatively argued call for shifting the emphasis of critical theory from Habermasian "critique," restricted to normative clarification, to "disclosure," a possibility-enhancing approach that draws on and reinterprets ideas of Heidegger.
Cogent Science in Context
The Science Wars, Argumentation Theory, and Habermas
ISBN: 9780262516600
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 19, 2011
A proposal for an interdisciplinary, context-sensitive framework for assessing the strength of scientific arguments that melds Jürgen Habermas's discourse theory and sociological contextualism.
Democracy across Borders
From Dêmos to Dêmoi
ISBN: 9780262514101
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 22, 2010
An innovative conception of democracy for an era of globalization and delegation of authority beyond the nation-state: rule by peoples across borders rather than by "the people" within a fixed jurisdiction.
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society
ISBN: 9780262581080
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 28, 1991
This is Jürgen Habermas's most concrete historical-sociological book and one of the key contributions to political thought in the postwar period. It will be a revelation to those who have known Habermas...
Reason in the Age of Science
ISBN: 9780262570619
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 14, 1983
The essays in this book deal broadly with the question of what form reasoning about life and society can take in a culture permeated by scientific and technical modes of thought. They attempt to identify...
Re-Presenting the Good Society
ISBN: 9780262033473
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 7, 2006
A proposal for negotiating the tension between an anti-authoritarian impulse and a guiding idea of context-transcending validity in critical social theory.
Adorno's Negative Dialectic
Philosophy and the Possibility of Critical Rationality
ISBN: 9780262651080
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 12, 2005
The purely philosophical concerns of Theodor W. Adorno's negative dialectic would seem to be far removed from the concreteness of critical theory; Adorno's philosophy considers perhaps the most traditional...
The Dialectics of Seeing
Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project
ISBN: 9780262521642
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 1, 1991
Walter Benjamin's magnum opus was a book he did not live to write. In The Dialectics of Seeing, Susan Buck-Morss offers an inventive reconstruction of the Passagen Werk, or Arcades Project, as it might...
The Principle of Hope
ISBN: 9780262521994
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 26, 1995
The Principle of Hope is one of the great works of the human spirit. It is a critical history of the utopian vision and a profound exploration of the possible reality of utopia. Even as the world has...
Critique and Disclosure
Critical Theory between Past and Future
ISBN: 9780262516532
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 19, 2011
A provocatively argued call for shifting the emphasis of critical theory from Habermasian "critique," restricted to normative clarification, to "disclosure," a possibility-enhancing approach that draws on and reinterprets ideas of Heidegger.
Cogent Science in Context
The Science Wars, Argumentation Theory, and Habermas
ISBN: 9780262516600
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 19, 2011
A proposal for an interdisciplinary, context-sensitive framework for assessing the strength of scientific arguments that melds Jürgen Habermas's discourse theory and sociological contextualism.
Democracy across Borders
From Dêmos to Dêmoi
ISBN: 9780262514101
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 22, 2010
An innovative conception of democracy for an era of globalization and delegation of authority beyond the nation-state: rule by peoples across borders rather than by "the people" within a fixed jurisdiction.
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society
ISBN: 9780262581080
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 28, 1991
This is Jürgen Habermas's most concrete historical-sociological book and one of the key contributions to political thought in the postwar period. It will be a revelation to those who have known Habermas...
Reason in the Age of Science
ISBN: 9780262570619
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 14, 1983
The essays in this book deal broadly with the question of what form reasoning about life and society can take in a culture permeated by scientific and technical modes of thought. They attempt to identify...
Re-Presenting the Good Society
ISBN: 9780262033473
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 7, 2006
A proposal for negotiating the tension between an anti-authoritarian impulse and a guiding idea of context-transcending validity in critical social theory.
Adorno's Negative Dialectic
Philosophy and the Possibility of Critical Rationality
ISBN: 9780262651080
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 12, 2005
The purely philosophical concerns of Theodor W. Adorno's negative dialectic would seem to be far removed from the concreteness of critical theory; Adorno's philosophy considers perhaps the most traditional...
The Dialectics of Seeing
Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project
ISBN: 9780262521642
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 1, 1991
Walter Benjamin's magnum opus was a book he did not live to write. In The Dialectics of Seeing, Susan Buck-Morss offers an inventive reconstruction of the Passagen Werk, or Arcades Project, as it might...