Jürgen Habermas

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Jürgen Habermas (born June 18, 1929) is a German critical theorist and philosopher. He is perhaps best known for his theory on the concepts of 'communicative rationality' and the 'public sphere'. His most highly cited works include Knowledge and human Interests, The theory of communicative action Vol 1 and 2, The structural transformation of the public sphere: An inquiry into a category of bourgeois society and Legitimation crisis.[1]


Publications, commentary and critique, resources

Main works

  • Habermas, Jürgen. (1987a). The Theory of Communicative Action. Volume One. Reason and the Rationalization of Society. Trans. Thomas McCarthy. Boston: Beacon Press.
  • Habermas, Jürgen. (1987b). The Theory of Communicative Action. Volume Two. Lifeworld and System: A Critique of Functionalist Reason. Trans. Thomas McCarthy. Boston: Beacon Press.
  • Habermas, Jürgen. (1979). Communication and the Evolution of Society. Trans. Thomas McCarthy. Boston: Beacon Press.
  • Habermas, Jürgen. (1979) “What is Universal Pragmatics?” In Communication and the Evolution of Society. Trans. Thomas McCarthy. Boston: Beacon Press. Pp. 1-68.
  • Habermas, Jürgen. (1982). “A Reply to My Critics.” In John B. Thompson & David Held. Habermas: The Critical Debates, pp. 219-83. Cambridge: The MIT Press.
  • Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action (1983)
  • Habermas, Jürgen. (1983). Philosophical-Political Profiles. Trans. Frederick G. Lawrence. Cambridge: The MIT Press.
  • The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity (1985)
  • The New Conservatism (1985)
  • The New Obscurity: The Crisis of the Welfare State (1986)
  • Habermas, Jürgen. (1986). Habermas: Autonomy and Solidarity: Interviews with Jürgen Habermas. Peter Dews (Ed.). London: Verso.
  • Habermas, Jürgen. (1988). On the Logic of the Social Sciences. Tr. Shierry Weber Nicholsen & Jerry A. Stark. Cambridge: MIT Press, (1967).
  • Postmetaphysical Thinking (1988)
  • Justification and Application (1991)
  • Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy (1992)
  • Habermas, Jürgen. (1992). Postmetaphysical Thinking: Philosophical Essays. Trans. William Mark Hohengarten. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  • On the Pragmatics of Communication (1992)
  • Habermas, Jürgen. (1996). The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society. Tr. Thomas Burger & Frederick Lawrence. Cambridge: MIT Press.
  • The Inclusion of the Other (1996)
  • A Berlin Republic (1997, collection of interviews with Habermas)
  • The Postnational Constellation (1998)
  • Rationality and Religion (1998)
  • Truth and Justification (1998)
  • Habermas, Jürgen. (2001a). On the Pragmatics of Social Interaction: Preliminary Studies in the Theory of Communicative Action. Trans. Barbara Fuller. Cambridge: The MIT Press.
  • Habermas, Jürgen. (2001b). Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action. Trans. Christian Lenhardt & Shierry Weber Nicholsen. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  • Habermas, Jürgen. (2002). The Language of the Third Reich. Trans. Martin Brady. London: Contniuum.
  • Habermas, Jürgen. (2003). Truth and Justification. Translated by Barbara Fultner. Cambridge: MIT Press.
  • The Future of Human Nature (2003) ISBN 0745629865
  • Old Europe, New Europe, Core Europe (2005) ISBN 184467018X
  • The Divided West (2006)
  • Habermas, Jürgen. (2006). “Political Communication in Media Society: Does Democracy Still Enjoy an Epistemic Dimension? The Impact of Normative Theory on Empirical Research.” Communication Theory, 16: 411-26.
  • Jürgen Habermas Time of Transitions Cambridge: Polity, 2006. 208 pp. ISBN 978 0 7456 3011 3
  • The Dialectics of Secularization (2007, w/ Joseph Ratzinger)
  • Between Naturalism and Religion: Philosophical Essays (2008)
  • Europe. The Faltering Project (2009)

Commentary and critique

  • Antonio, Robert J. and Douglas Kellner (1992) 'Communication, Democratization, and Modernity: Critical Reflections on Habermas and Dewey,' Habermas, Pragmatism, and Critical Theory, special section of Symbolic Interaction, Vol. 15, Nr. 3 (Fall 1992), 277-298.
  • Calhoun, Craig (Ed). (1992). Habermas and the Public Sphere. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0262531146
  • Crick, Nathan & Joseph Gabriel. (2010). 'The Conduit Between Lifeworld and System: Habermas and the Rhetoric of Public Scientific Controversies.' Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 40: 201-223.
  • Nick Crossley (2004) 'On systematically distorted communication: Bourdieu and the socio-analysis of publics', Sociological Review, Special Issue: Sociological Review Monograph Series: After Habermas: New Perspectives on the Public Sphere, edited by John Michael Roberts and Nick Crossley, Volume 52, Issue Supplement s1, pages 88–112, June.
  • Nick Crossley and John Michael Roberts (eds) After Habermas: New Perspectives on the Public Sphere Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. 192 pp. ISBN 978 1 4051 2365 5
  • Eley, Geoff. (1992). 'Nations, Publics, and Political Cultures: Placing Habermas in the Nineteenth Century.' In Craig Calhoun (Ed.), Habermas and the Public Sphere, pp. 289-339. Cambridge: MIT Press.
  • Nancy Fraser (1990) 'Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy', Social Text, 25(26): 56–80 doi = 10.2307/466240.
  • Nicholas Garnham (2007) 'Habermas and the public sphere' Global Media and Communication Volume 3(2): 201–214.
  • Luke Goode Jürgen Habermas: Democracy and the Public Sphere London: Pluto, 2005. 176 pp. ISBN 978 0 7453 2088 5
  • Alan G. Gross, 'Systematically Distorted Communication: An Impediment to Social and Political Change', Informal Logic, Vol. 30, No. 4 (2010), pp. 335-360.
  • Hohendahl, Peter (1979) 'Critical Theory, Public Sphere and Culture: Habermas and His Critics', New German Critique 16 (Winter): 89-118.
  • Douglas Kellner Habermas, the Public Sphere, and Democracy: A Critical Intervention UCLA.
  • McCarthy, Thomas. (1982). The Critical Theory of Jürgen Habermas. Cambridge: MIT Press.
  • Alan McKee The Public Sphere: An Introduction Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 276 pp. ISBN 978 0 5215 4990 5
  • Hannu Nieminen, Hegemony and the Public Sphere. Turku: University of Turku Press, 2000.
  • David Ward Review of Hannu Nieminen, Hegemony and the Public Sphere. Turku: University of Turku Press, 2000. Media Culture Society 2002; 24; 290. Extract
  • Warren, Mark E. (1995). “The Self in Discursive Democracy.” In Stephen K. White (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Habemas, pp. 167-200. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • White, Stephen K. (1988). The Recent Work of Jürgen Habermas: Reason, Justice and Modernity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Resources

Notes

  1. ↑ Data from google Scholar on 12 July 2011. The works were cited 6561, 5794/5904, 4230 and 4094 times, respectively.
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