Titlebook: Habermas; Critical Debates John B. Thompson (Research Fellow),David Held (Lec Textbook 1982Latest edition Macmillan Publishers Limited 1982

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Of Gods and Demons: Habermas and Practical Reason,. Truth, on his view, means ‘warranted assertibility’: this is shown when participants enter into a discourse and ‘a consensus can be realized under conditions that identify it as a justified consensus’.. If, he writes, ‘philosophical ethics and political theory are supposed to disclose the moral co

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,Habermas’s Theory of Social Evolution,racter.. The theory is presented along several different lines of thought, but these, when looked at more closely, do not always form a coherent whole. The claims of a theory developed under such circumstances can only be judged in an equally limited way. In particular, the restricted scope of this

Coterminous

Crisis Tendencies, Legitimation and the State,elped to direct our understanding of the organisational principles of society away from old dogmas — dogmas asserting, for instance, that the state is merely ‘a system of coercion to support the dominant class’ or that it is ‘a coalition balancing all legitimate interests’. Since the advantages of H

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Gudgeon

A Reply to my Critics,but by no means present finished thoughts is a source of both embarrassment and pleasure. For all the ambivalence, satisfaction is, to be sure, predominant. There has never been any need to complain about lack of attention among the scholarly and political public; however, this resonance often enoug

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The Economics of Transaction Coststo the work of Quine. On the other hand, in Habermas’s writings since . there is to be found a sufficiently systematic discussion of natural science to enable us to derive an account of his distinctive approach to these problems. My aim in this essay is to give a critical account of this approach.