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Democracy, power and legitimacy : the critical theory of Jürgen Habermas /

"Over his long and scholarly life, Jurgen Habermas has patiently laboured to diagnose the limitations and free the potential of the project of modernity - the pursuit of the ideal of free society by rational subjects. Omid A. Payrow Shabani here analyses the development of Habermas's criti...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Payrow Shabani, Omid A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, ©2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Unfinished Project of Modernity and the Heritage of Critical Theory
  • 2 Communicative Action Theory and Rational Reconstruction of Linguistic Interaction
  • 3 The Communicative Ethics Controversy: Insights and Oversights
  • 4 Discourse Ethics and Legitimation Problems in Advanced Capitalism
  • 5 The Imperilment of the Critical Theory: The Seductive Complacency of the 'Is'
  • 6 Recovering the Critical Impulse of Habermas's Theory of Democracy
  • 7 Constitutional Patriotism as an Answer to the Problems of Diversity and SolidarityAbbreviations
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index