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...Peter J. Verovšek Although Jürgen Habermas is one of postwar Europe’s leading philosophers and public intellectuals, the secondary literature often portrays him as an apolitical thinker with little interest in “real politics.” This article demonstrates that from the beginning of his career Habermas...

...Gili Kliger While the founding members of the Frankfurt School, notably Theodor W. Adorno, devoted much of their thought to aesthetic experience, Jürgen Habermas came to reflect on aesthetics only sparingly. This article considers the role of Adorno's aesthetic theory in Habermas's thought...

...Çiğdem Çıdam Although it is one of the least theorized concepts in his oeuvre, Jürgen Habermas's recourse to constitutional patriotism at critical junctures of his intellectual career points to the concept's significant role in his democratic theory. In analyzing Habermas's invocations...

...Khagendra Prasai The most consequential distinction Habermas draws between Marx’s and his own utopia of emancipation is that societal differentiation, in the former, is dissolved into the lifeworld, whereas in the latter it is preserved as an accomplishment of and necessary for the reproduction...

...John Brenkman Just as Jürgen Habermas's dialogue with Cardinal Ratzinger shifted critical theory's stance toward religion, the dialogue between Gianni Vattimo and René Girard reveals tensions within philosophy's critical appropriations of Christianity. Vattimo draws on Heidegger and hermeneutics...

...Martin Jay Miriam Hansen's studies of both American silent film and Frankfurt School film theory drew on the critique of Jürgen Habermas's concept of the public sphere developed by Oskar Negt and Alexander Kluge. Expanding it beyond the bourgeoisie and stressing the importance of experience as well...

...Axel Honneth; Alex Englander This article asks what it means to claim that secular reason is “postmetaphysical” and differentiates among understandings of that notion in Jürgen Habermas’s work. The article considers what secular reason would have to achieve to make good on the claim that it still...

... no critical edge. Jürgen Habermas, for instance, promotes a sustained critique of current European mentalities that aims to unravel Europe's normative potential. In critical dialogue with Habermas's most recent ideas on this subject, the article argues that, to be meaningful, the European promise requires...

...Lukas Kaelin The public sphere stands at the center of much of the philosophical, sociological, political science, and media theory discourse on the organization and legitimation of society. Although the latest German-speaking public sphere theories, in particular from Jürgen Habermas, Kurt Imhof...

... of culture because they serve as a universal, neutral medium in contrast to particular religious or ideological worldviews and most especially religious “fundamentalism” is questioned through a discussion of texts by Günter Grass, Jürgen Habermas, Martti Koskenniemi, Carl Schmitt, and Tzvetan Todorov...

... of Social Research he accentuated the unequal power recourses of conflicting social groups and different institutional mechanisms to deal with these conflicts politically. This approach made his work interesting for authors of a later generation of Critical Theory like Jürgen Habermas and Claus Offe. Max...

... of philosophical anthropology by thinkers like Axel Honneth and Jürgen Habermas, who explore positive theories of human limits and needs as the basis of social critique. As Adorno consistently refused to define the human on philosophical and political grounds, this article asks whether his work offers...

... . Man , translated by McMillan Clare Pillemer Karl . New York : Columbia University Press . Habermas Jürgen . 1975 . Legitimation Crisis , translated by McCarthy Thomas . Boston : Beacon . ———. 1987 . The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity , translated...

... is explicitly whiggish. Not for nothing has the philosopher Jürgen Habermas been hailed as the “Hegel of the Federal Republic,” because his articulation of its supposedly “postconven- tional” identity presents the self-understanding of the Berlin Republic as a suc- cessful moral learning process.4 The Red...

... Historik theory of history References Blanning T. C. W. 1989 . Review of Reinhart Koselleck , Critique and Crisis: Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern Society. German History 7 , no. 3 : 265 – 66 . Calhoun Craig , ed. 1992 . Habermas and the Public Sphere...

... and early 1970s in pronounced opposition to the notion of a Leistungselite (meritocracy) that was promoted by the business world. What is remarkable about the use of Humboldt by the student movement and some of its academic supporters (among them Jürgen Habermas) was the shift of context...

... and Martha Nussbaum have pointed out in their arguments for the necessity of a paralegal poetics for apprehending the “residues of justice,” “residues that introduce a lingering question, if nothing else, into any program of justice.”13 Even the lately so legalistic Habermas has repeatedly affi rmed...

... Carl Schmitt Jürgen Habermas political theory reality Jürgen Habermas’s two-volume This, Too, a History of Philosophy (2019) offers a grand vista over the history of “post-metaphysical thought.” The central distinction between its two main lineages is the weight each accords historical...

...Samir Gandesha New German Critique, Inc. 2006 The “Aesthetic Dignity of Words”: Adorno’s Philosophy of Language Samir Gandesha There can be little doubt that Jürgen Habermas has decisively set the terms of the reception of Theodor W...

... Are these opponents—Jürgen Habermas, Richard Wolin, and others— therefore embodying Schmitt’s own question for him, giving it Gestalt? That is not so clear. I have some sympathy for these critical enemies and their objec- tions to Schmitt, but their critiques lack any attempt to pose a question about what...