Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction: political philosophy in the twentieth century
- Part I The three basic alternatives in the early twentieth century
- Part II ??migr?? responses to World War II
- Part III The revival of liberal political philosophy
- Part IV Critiques of liberalism
- 14 Jean-Paul Sartre: ???in the soup???
- 15 Michel Foucault: an ethical politics of care of self and others
- 16 J??rgen Habermas: postwar German political debates and the making of a critical theorist
- 17 Alasdair MacIntyre on political thinking and the tasks of politics
- 18 Another philosopher-citizen: the political philosophy of Charles Taylor
- Index
- References
16 - J??rgen Habermas: postwar German political debates and the making of a critical theorist
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction: political philosophy in the twentieth century
- Part I The three basic alternatives in the early twentieth century
- Part II ??migr?? responses to World War II
- Part III The revival of liberal political philosophy
- Part IV Critiques of liberalism
- 14 Jean-Paul Sartre: ???in the soup???
- 15 Michel Foucault: an ethical politics of care of self and others
- 16 J??rgen Habermas: postwar German political debates and the making of a critical theorist
- 17 Alasdair MacIntyre on political thinking and the tasks of politics
- 18 Another philosopher-citizen: the political philosophy of Charles Taylor
- Index
- References
Summary
Like few other intellectuals of his generation, Jürgen Habermas (1929–) has not only helped shape theoretical discourse in an astonishing array of scholarly fields (e.g., jurisprudence, the philosophy of social sciences, political theory or philosophy, and social theory) but has also consistently played a major role in cultural and political debates that have regularly garnered broad public audiences: In the Federal Republic of Germany, whose development Habermas has critically scrutinized pretty much since its founding, he has consistently and sometimes courageously checked revanchist political tendencies, repeatedly speaking out against antidemocratic and illiberal voices and trends. To focus on Habermas's accomplishments as a “political philosopher” thus necessarily means ignoring many of his most significant contributions. Nonetheless, it remains appropriate to do so if only because his massive oeuvre speaks directly to one of political philosophy's main concerns since the 1960s.
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- Political Philosophy in the Twentieth CenturyAuthors and Arguments, pp. 238 - 251Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011