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ity chicago anyone who has read habermas knows how daunting his writing can be aside from the notorious density and abstractness of his prose there is the challenge posed by the sheer scope of his undertaking quite simply he stands out among our great contemporary thinkers for having dared to write a system of philosophy that crosses both disciplinary and thematic boundaries in addition to this challenge his thought has undergone several major permutations and countless minor ones over the past half century as evidenced by the thirty some odd books and collections he has authored so we are truly fortunate that acumen chose to include a book on habermas in its exceptional key concepts series these volumes are designed to provide synoptic introductions to important thinkers this volume edited by the well known habermas translator and scholar barbara fultner is a fine addition to the series the essays included in this volume are written by eminent specialists in their respective fields many of whom studied with habermas they are uniformly of high quality and most are written at a level that upper division undergraduates should find accessible furthermore although most of them present a sympathetic case for habermas s ambitious undertaking they do not shy away from noting potential weaknesses in short this is about as complete an account of habermas s social philosophy as one might possibly expect from a modestly sized volume the best way to appreciate the merits of the volume is to go directly to its table of contents with the exception of fultner s fine introduction in which she deftly summarizes the evolution of habermas s thought through four stages and max pensky s nicely written essay situating habermas s post metaphysical enterprise within its historical and intellectual context the volume s eleven chapters fall under three headings that are arranged in a kind of logical order the first heading on communicative rationality addresses the basic methodological and conceptual foundation of habermas s system this section begins with melissa yates s reflections on habermas s post metaphysical style of philosophical thinking yates observes that unlike many philosophers habermas refuses to assign his philosophy any privileged epistemic status above or prior to the empirical sciences this serves as a corrective to those who mistakenly believe that habermas is a transcendental philosopher in the kantian vein at the same time habermas reserves a unique role for philosophy as a kind of placeholder or guardian for the most basic normative presuppositions underlying distinctly modern forms of life whose abstract rule like competencies it seeks to reconstruct with the aid of the sciences this latter endeavor requires that philosophy mediate interpretatively the sciences and our common sense understanding of what it is that we do whenever we act communicate argue with one another reason morally and the like in this way habermas s notion of philosophy defends in a weakly transcendental way with the aid of an equally weak naturalism claims about universal normative assumptions to which we must all appeal if we are to make sense of our speech action argumentative practice and modes of moral ethical and legal deliberation full here posted by ali rizvi at 11 21 am no comments labels reviews of habermas related books friday february 25 2011 habermas introduction and analysis notre dame philosophical reviews 2011 02 37 view this review online view other ndpr reviews david ingram habermas introduction and analysis cornell university press 2010 360pp 26 95 pbk isbn 9780801476013 reviewed by eduardo mendieta stony brook university david ingram is no neophyte to either habermas or frankfurt school critical theory a very good argument can be made in fact that ingram belongs to what has been called third generation critical theory 1 his 1987 book habermas and the dialectic of reason 2 was indispensable for a new generation of scholars trying to make sense of habermas two volume theory of communicative action 1981 and his philosophical discourse of modernity 1984 over the last two decades in addition to editing volumes of the key writings by frankfurt school critical theorists he has written a series of books on democracy rights globalization and cosmopolitanism that have traced a distinctive contribution to a more radical understanding of deliberative democracy such a sustained engagement with habermas work in particular and critical theory in general explains why this book is not simply an introduction read the review in full here posted by ali rizvi at 4 04 pm no comments labels reviews of habermas related books thursday january 13 2011 habermas an intellectual biography jürgen habermas ranks today as the single most important public intellectual in all of continental europe but he is also a formidable philosopher whose major contributions to social and political theory constitutional law historical sociology the history of philosophy and the philosophy of language to name only the fields he revisits with greatest frequency are pitched at such air gasping heights of difficulty and place such merciless demands upon the reader as to turn away all but the most fearless this twofold persona technical philosopher and public controversialist does not strike most europeans as unfamiliar sartre was such a creature too but in the anglophone world it is a species that remains exotic john rawls to whom habermas is often compared is justly remembered as the major anglophone political philosopher of the twentieth century but beyond the university walls his public presence was minimal you have to go back to the early twentieth century maybe to bertrand russell to find a philosopher who achieved a similar prestige for both his technical philosophical achievements and his interventions on the public stage read full review here link courtesy of leiter reprots posted by ali rizvi at 10 40 am no comments labels books on habermas wednesday december 29 2010 remarks on the concept of critique in habermasian thought remarks on the concept of critique in habermasian thought author simon susena abstract the main purpose of this paper is to examine the concept of critique in habermasian thought given that the concept of critique is a central theoretical category in the work of the frankfurt school it comes as a surprise that little in the way of a systematic account which sheds light on the multifaceted meanings of the concept of critique in habermas s oeuvre can be found in the literature this paper aims to fill this gap by exploring the various meanings that habermas attributes to the concept of critique in 10 key thematic areas of his writings 1 the public sphere 2 knowledge 3 language 4 morality 5 ethics 6 evolution 7 legitimation 8 democracy 9 religion and 10 modernity on the basis of a detailed analysis of habermas s multifaceted concerns with the nature and function of critique the study seeks to demonstrate that the concept of critique can be considered not only as a constitutive element but also as a normative cornerstone of habermasian thought the paper draws to a close by reflecting on some of the limitations of habermas s conception of critique arguing that in order to be truly critical in the habermasian sense we need to turn the subject of critique into an object of critique keywords communication critical capacity critical theory critique emancipation habermas language rationality validity view full text article posted by ali rizvi at 7 20 pm no comments labels articles on habermas thursday december 09 2010 recent papers by habermas 1 jürgen habermas 2010 review article the good life a detestable phrase the significance of the young rawls s religious ethics for his political theory european journal of philosophy 18 3 443 454 2 jürgen habermas 2010 the concept of human dignity and the realistic utopia of human rights metaphilosophy 41 4 464 480 abstract human rights developed in response to specific violations of human dignity and can therefore be conceived as specifications of human dignity their moral source this internal relationship explains the moral content and moreover the distinguishing feature of human rights they are designed for an effective implementation of the core moral values of an egalitarian universalism in terms of coercive law this essay is an attempt to explain this moral legal janus face of human rights through the mediating role of the concept of human dignity this concept is due to a remarkable generalization of the particularistic meanings of those dignities that once were attached to specific honorific functions and memberships in spite of its abstract meaning human dignity still retains from its particularistic precursor concepts the connotation of depending on the social recognition of a status in this case the status of democratic citizenship only membership in a constitutional political community can protect by granting equal rights the equal human dignity of everybody from here 3 jürgen habermas 2009 life after bankruptcy an interview constellations 16 2 227 234 posted by ali rizvi at 11 56 am 2 comments labels papers by haberams tuesday december 07 2010 philosophical foundations of habermas critique of particularistic liberalism abstract jürgen habermas has emerged as a sharp and occasionally harsh critic of the bush administration s policies since the iraq war habermas has developed this critique in several of his short pieces and interviews some of which are available in fine collections in both english and other languages however the occasional and journalistic character of habermas political interventions often hide the theoretical basis of his critique in this paper i argue that habermas critique of the bush administration s foreign policy emanates from and is founded upon his conception of modernity and specifically his views about the relationship between particularity and generality the purpose of this essay is to demonstrate how habermas critique can actually be read as a critique of particularism which habermas sees operating behind american and british foreign policy and which in his view compromises the key achievements of modernity especially in its kantian version read full paper here pdf posted by ali rizvi at 10 37 pm 2 comments labels papers on habermas monday november 29 2010 on habermas s critique of husserl matheson russell abstract over four decades habermas has put to paper many critical remarks on husserl s work as occasion has demanded these scattered critical engagements nonetheless do add up to a coherent if contestable position regarding the project of transcendental phenomenology this essay provides a comprehensive reconstruction of the arguments habermas makes and offers a critical assessment of them with an eye in particular to the theme of intersubjectivity a theme of fundamental interest to both thinkers it is argued that habermas s arguments do indeed show up deficiencies in husserlian phenomenology and yet that they do not succeed in proving that we must abandon the methods and tasks of phenomenological research on the contrary it is argued that phenomenological methods may well be needed in order to investigate certain philosophical questions that habermas s theory of communication has thus far only partially addressed pdf posted by ali rizvi at 6 47 pm 1 comment labels papers on habermas wednesday november 10 2010 an awareness of what is missing jűrgen habermas et al an awareness of what is missing trans ciaran cronin polity cambridge 2010 96pp 12 99 pb isbn 9780745647210 reviewed by tom angier this slim volume is the outcome of a discussion held in 2007 between jürgen habermas and philosophers from the jesuit school for philosophy in munich since habermas contribution occupies a mere twenty one pages the book is effectively even slimmer than it appears indeed anyone interested in habermas views on the relation between faith and reason will find little here that goes beyond his much more substantial collection of essays between naturalism and religion polity 2008 nonetheless the present volume is worthwhile reading and this for two main reasons first it was inspired in part by pope benedict s regensburg address in 2006 which besides upsetting many people in the muslim world was itself an attempt to elaborate the relations between faith and reason and second it represents an attempt to engage a section of the academic world viz philosophers in catholic universities who rarely appear on the radar of philosophers in mainstream de facto if not de jure secular institutions so despite what i will argue are severe shortcomings especially from a left political perspective this collection of brief exchanges is valuable if only as a brave attempt to challenge the self imposed constraints of current academia full review here posted by ali rizvi at 6 16 pm no comments labels reviews of habermas books monday november 08 2010 leadership and leitkultur by jürgen habermas since the end of august germany has been roiled by waves of political turmoil over integration multiculturalism and the role of the leitkultur or guiding national culture this discourse is in turn reinforcing trends toward increasing xenophobia among the broader population these trends have been apparent for many years in studies and survey data that show a quiet but growing hostility to immigrants yet it is as though they have only now found a voice the usual stereotypes are being flushed out of the bars and onto the talk shows and they are echoed by mainstream politicians who want to capture potential voters who are otherwise drifting off toward the right two events have given rise to a mixture of emotions that are no longer easy to locate on the scale from left to right a book by a board member of germany s central bank and a recent speech by the german president it all began with the advance release of provocative excerpts from germany does away with itself a book that argues that the future of germany is threatened by the wrong kind of immigrants especially from muslim countries in the book thilo sarrazin a politician from the social democratic party who sat on the bundesbank board develops proposals for demographic policies aimed at the muslim population in germany he fuels discrimination against this minority with intelligence research from which he draws false biological conclusions that have gained unusually wide publicity in sharp contrast to the initial spontaneous objections from major politicians these theses have gained popular support one poll found that more than a third of germans agreed with mr sarrazin s prognosis that germany was becoming naturally more stupid on average as a result of immigration from muslim countries after half hearted responses in the press by a handful of psychologists who left the impression that there might be something to these claims after all 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