Reflection Revisited: Jurgen Habermas's Discursive Theory of Truth

by James C. Swindal

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823218074
• ISBN13: 9780823218073
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"