Harste The Habermas-Luhmann Debate

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-231-55007-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harste, Gorm

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Transzendentalphilosophie, Kritizismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Gorm Harste is associate professor of political science at Aarhus University. He is a specialist in theories of European state building, and his books in English include Law and Intersystemic Communication: Understanding “Structural Coupling” (2013).