Jürgen Habermas

Publications, commentary and critique, resources

Main works

• The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (1962) ISBN 0262581086 translated into English in 1989 by Thomas Burger and Frederick Lawrence
• Theory and Practice (1963)
• On the Logic of the Social Sciences (1967)
• Toward a Rational Society (1967)
• Technology and Science as Ideology (1968)
• 'On systematically distorted communication' Inquiry 13 (1):205-218. Abstract
• Knowledge and Human Interests (1971, German 1968)
• "On Social Identity". TELOS 19 (Spring 1974). New York: Telos Press
• Legitimation Crisis (1975)
• Communication and the Evolution of Society (1976)
• On the Pragmatics of Social Interaction (1976)
• The Theory of Communicative Action (1981) Published in Englishin two volumes:

• 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.

• Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action (1983)
• Philosophical-Political Profiles (1983)
• The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity (1985)
• The New Conservatism (1985)
• The New Obscurity: The Crisis of the Welfare State (1986)
• Postmetaphysical Thinking (1988)
• Justification and Application (1991)
• Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy (1992)
• On the Pragmatics of Communication (1992)
• 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)
• The Future of Human Nature (2003) ISBN 0745629865
• Old Europe, New Europe, Core Europe (2005) ISBN 184467018X
• The Divided West (2006)
• 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)

Habermas, Jürgen. (1970) “On Systematically Distorted Communication.” Inquiry, 13: 205-18. Habermas, Jürgen. (1971). Knowledge and Human Interests. Trans. Jeremy J. Shapiro. Boston: Beacon Press. Habermas, Jürgen. (1975). LTI: Notizbuch eines Philologen. Leipzig: Reclam Verlag. 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. Habermas, Jürgen. (1983). Philosophical-Political Profiles. Trans. Frederick G. Lawrence. Cambridge: The MIT Press. Habermas, Jürgen. (1986). Habermas: Autonomy and Solidarity: Interviews with Jürgen Habermas. Peter Dews (Ed.). London: Verso. 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. (1988). On the Logic of the Social Sciences. Tr. Shierry Weber Nicholsen & Jerry A. Stark. Cambridge: MIT Press, (1967). Habermas, Jürgen. (1992). Postmetaphysical Thinking: Philosophical Essays. Trans. William Mark Hohengarten. Cambridge: MIT Press. 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. Systematically Distorted Communication 359 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: 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. 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.

Commentary and critique

• Calhoun, Craig (Ed). (1992). Habermas and the Public Sphere. Cambridge: MIT Press.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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

• Wikipedia Jürgen Habermas