Reflection Revisited: Jurgen Habermas's Discursive Theory of Truth (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780823218073)

Jurgen Habermas, particularly in his master work Theory of Communicative Action (1981), takes us several of the basic insights of the philosophical tradition of reflection initiated by Kant, and sets it on a new and highly original emancipative path. He claims that reflection not only can determine the limits of reasoning about thought and action, but also can grasp the limits that human agents face in freeing themselves form unjust social and economic structures. Human agents can engage in constructive and emancipative communication with others by determining the limits not of their own consciousness, but of the intersubjective structures shared in everyday communication. Reflection Revisited examines Habermas' own two-stage development of this theory of emancipative reflection and explicates how he applies reflection specifically to the problems of personal identity development and ethics.

Author: James C. Swindal
ISBN-10: 0823218074
ISBN-13: 9780823218073
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1999
Pages: 298
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 8.95h x 5.90w x 0.66d