RT Book
T1 The Habermas-Luhmann debate
A1 Harste, Gorm 1955-
LA English
PP New York
PB Columbia University Press
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1778041345
AB Fifty years ago, the two leading German philosophers and sociologists since the Second World War, Jürgen Habermas and Niklas Luhmann, embarked on a sweeping and contentious debate that would continue for decades. This is the first book in English about one of the most important conflicts in social theory today.
AB Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Part I: A Debate Unlike Any Other -- Introduction -- 1. The Historical Context of the Debate -- Part II: Meaning, Language, and Communication -- 2. How a Debate Takes Off -- 3. Intersubjectivity and Lifeworld -- Part III: Between History and Evolution -- 4. History and Evolution: The Initial Debates -- 5. Evolution and History: The Harvest (1977- ) -- Part IV: The Debate on Legitimacy -- 6. Complexity and Democracy (1968-71) -- 7. Paradoxes of Legitimacy: Crises and Risks (1973-91) -- 8. "Before the Law" (1992- ) -- Part V: Further Debates -- 9. Broader Perspectives-Luhmann, Habermas, Foucault, and Bourdieu -- Epilogue: Habermas's Limitations to Secularization (2019) -- Notes -- Reference List -- Index.
CN 193
SN 9780231550079
K1 Habermas, Jürgen
K1 Luhmann, Niklas,-1927-1998
K1 Political science-Europe-Philosophy-History
K1 Electronic books