Habermas between Critical Theory and Liberalism

2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-53937-4
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 259 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 468 g

This book identifies the turning points in Habermas's work and his transition from one stage to another in the development of his theoretical oeuvre. Habermas began his academic career as part of the Frankfurt School, but the two key points at which his career changes trajectory are moving from historical materialism to normative idealism and playing with some of the ideas of liberalism. Normative idealism is an ahistorical theory that insists on the independence of the normative from material reality, severing the connection between base and superstructure that Marx wrote about. The break with the basic concepts of Marxism enabled Habermas to build his own discursive (critical) theory, which, especially since the end of the 1980s, takes the ideas of liberalism seriously. This book makes a systematic, multidimensional and detailed analysis of Habermas's theoretical oeuvre in two dimensions, chronological (in the order in which Habermas worked on certain topics) and thematic (enclosingcertain thematic units).

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sharlamanov, Kire

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Transzendentalphilosophie, Kritizismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Pragmatismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Basic characteristics of Habermas' theoretical oeuvre.- 2. The attitude to the critical theory.- 3. The attitude to marxism.- 4. The public sphere.- 5. The communicative action.- 6. Discursive ethics (of morality).- 7. Discoursive theory of democracy.- 8. Discoursive theory of law.

Über Autor(innen)

Kire Sharlamanov is Full Professor of Sociology at the International Balkan University, Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia. His specialty is in the field of political sociology. He is the author of several books and articles in the field of sociology. In 2022 Kire Sharlamanov was president of the Association of Sociologists of Macedonia.