This is the first systematic assessment of the work of Jurgen Habermas - the key theorist of the later Frankfurt School, whose writing has had a major impact on social theory and sociology. These four volumes comprise the key secondary literature on Habermas. Edited by David Rasmussen and James Swindal, leading commentators on Habermas's work, this will be the standard reference work on one of the canonical theorists of the 20th century.



VOLUME ONE: THE FOUNDATIONS OF HABERMAS'S PROJECT


Habermas as a Critical Theorist Habermas, Hermeneutics and Critical Theory The Modernity/Postmodernity Debate





VOLUME TWO:LAW AND POLITICS


Law and Democratic Theory The Public Sphere Culture and Society





VOLUME THREE: ETHICS


Discourse Ethics Rethinking Discourse Ethics Autonomy and Authenticity





VOLUME FOUR: COMMUNICATIVE RATIONALITY, FORMAL PRAGMATICS, SPEECH ACT THEORY AND TRUTH


Communicative Rationality Formal Pragmatics and Speech Act Theory Nature, History and the Logic of Development Truth