Jürgen Habermas

(1929—)

(Frankfurt School / Critical Theory)

 

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“Indentification with the role model creates the authority through which an internalization of norms, and thus a sedimentation of prejudgments, is made possible. The prejudgments in turn are the preconditions of possible knowledge. This knowledge is raised to the status of reflection when it makes transparent the normative framework within which it moves. In this way hermeneutics brings into awareness what in acts of understanding has always been historically prestructured through inculcated traditions.” (“hermeneutic approach,” 169.2)

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  • Glauben und Wissen (Suhrkamp Verlag, 2002) [GW]; trans.: “Faith and Knowledge”, in Equalvoices no. 7 (2001) [pdf] and in e-Puget Magazine vol. 2 no. 1 (2002).
  • Zeit der Übergänge. Kleine Politische Schriften vol. 9 (Suhrkamp Verlag, 2001) [ZÜ]; trans. Contemporary Transitions (Polity Press, forthcoming)
  • Die Zukunft der menschlichen Natur. Auf dem Weg zu einer liberalen Eugenik? (Suhrkamp Verlag, 2001) [ZMN]; trans. The Future of the Human Nature (Polity Press, June 2002) [also contains ”Faith and Knowledge”]. Unauthorized translation: “On the Way to Liberal Eugenics?" [pdf]
  • Kommunikatives Handeln und detranszendentalisierte Vernunft (Reclam Verlag, 2001); Part I of the book is translated and published as “From Kant’s ‘Ideas’ of Pure Reason to the ‘Idealizing’ Presuppositions of Communicative Action: Reflections on the Detranscendentalized ‘Use of Reason’”, in William Rehg and James Bohman (eds.),Pluralism and the Pragmatic Turn (MIT Press, 2001) pp. 11-39.
  • Wahrheit und Rechtfertigung. Philosophische Aufsätze (Suhrkamp Verlag, 1999) [WR]; trans. Truth and Justification (Polity Press, 2003).
  • Die postnationale Konstellation. Politische Essays (Suhrkamp Verlag, 1998) [PK]; trans. The Postnational Constellation (Polity Press, 2001).
  • Vom sinnlichen Eindruck zum symbolischen Ausdruck. Philosophische Essays. (Suhrkamp Verlag, 1997) [SESA]; trans. The Liberating Power of Symbols: Philosophical Essays (Polity/MIT Press, 2001).
  • Die Einbeziehung des Anderen. Studien zur politischen Theorie (Suhrkamp Verlag, 1996) [EA]; trans. The Inclusion of The Other (MIT Press, 1998).
  • Die Normalität einer Berliner Republik. Kleine Politische Schriften vol. 8 (Suhrkamp Verlag, 1995) [NBR]; trans. The Berlin Republic (University of Nebraska Press, 1997)
  • Vergangenheit als Zukunft (Pendo Verlag, 1993); Interviews ed. by Michael Haller. [VZ]; trans. The Past as Future (University of Nebraska Press, 1994).
  • Faktizität und Geltung: Beiträge zur Diskurstheorie des Rechts und des demokratischen Rechtsstaats (Suhrkamp Verlag, 1992). [FG]; trans. Between Facts and Norms. Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy (Polity Press, 1996).