Habermas and Pragmatism

by Mitchell Aboulafia (Editor), Myra Bookman (Editor), and Cathy Kemp (Editor)

Overview

There are few living thinkers who have enjoyed the eminence and reown of Jürgen Hamermas. His work has been highly influential not only in philosopy, but also in the fields of politics, sociology and law. This is the first collection dedicated to exploring the connections between his body of work ahd America's most significant philosophical movement, pragmatism.

Habermas and Pragmatism considers the influence of pragmatism on Habermas's thought and the tensions between Habermasian social theory and pragmatism. Essays by distinguished pragmatists, legal and critical theorists, and Habermas cover a range of subjects including the philosophy of language, the nature of rationality, democracy, objectivity, transcendentalism, aesthetics, and law. The collection also addresses the relationship to Habermas of Kant, Peirce, Mead, Dewey, Piaget, Apel, Brandom and Rorty.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135641399
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/06/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Mitchell Aboiulafia is Professor of Philosophy, Myra Bookman and Cathy Kemp are both lecturers of philosophy, all at the University of Colorado at Denver.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Mitchell Aboulafia Part 1 Transcendentalism and Reason Chapter 1 Regarding the Relationship of Morality, Law and Democracy, Karl-Otto Apel Chapter 2 Vicissitudes of Transcendental Reason, Joseph Margolis Chapter 3 The Epistemological Promise of Pragmatism, Tom Rockmore Chapter 4 Forming Competence, Myra Bookman Part 2 Law and Democracy Chapter 5 The Sirens of Pragmatism Versus the Priests of Proceduralism, David Ingram Chapter 6 The Problem of Constitutional Interpretive Disagreement, Frank I. Michelman Part 3 Language and Aesthetic Experience Chapter 7 Reconstructing the Fourth Dimension, Lenore Langsdorf Chapter 8 Habermas, Pragmatism, and the Problem of Aesthetics, Richard Shusterman Part 4 Comparative Studies Chapter 9 Is Objectivity Perspectival?, Cristina Lafont Chapter 10 Habermas, Dewey, and the Democratic Self, Sandra B. Rosenthal Chapter 11 Postscript, Jürgen Habermas