A Biography
Buch, Englisch, 456 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 1088 g
ISBN: 978-0-7456-8906-7
Verlag: Polity Press
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* Table of Contents
* Acknowledgements
* Preface
* Prologue: The Other among his Peers
* Part I: Catastrophe and Emancipation
* Chapter 1: Disaster Years as Normality. Childhood and Youth in Gummersbach
* Born in 1929
* Turning point: 1945
* Chapter 2: At University in Göttingen, Zurich and Bonn
* Doctorate on the philosophy of Schelling
* Speaking out as a freelance journalist
* The beginnings of a career as a public intellectual
* Part II: Politics and Critique
* Chapter 3: Education intellectuelle in Café Marx
* Mutual trust between Habermas and the Adornos
* Horkheimer's animosities towards the 'dialectical Mr H.'
* The 'most promising intellectual'
* Chapter 4: Under the Aegis of Conflicting Personalities: Abendroth and Gadamer
* A man of the democratic left
* Positions in the dispute over the right form of critique and good politics
* Chapter 5: Back in Frankfurt. Torn between Academic Work and Political Practice
* In search of an epistemological foundation for critique
* Thinking with the protest movement against the protest movement
* In the line of fire from his own side
* A new track in philosophical thought
* Chapter 6: In the Ivory Tower of Social Scientific Research
* Between Academic Management and Research
* A theory about the impossibility of not learning
* The minefield of political interpretations in the 'German Autumn'
* Resignation
* Part III: Science and Commitment
* Chapter 7: Genius Loci: In Frankfurt for the Third Time
* The major work
* The theory of action
* System and lifeworld
* Everyday life in Frankfurt
* Chapter 8: New Projects
* Under the spell of the philosophy of law
* Morality and law
* Chapter 9: Battles over the Politics of Ideas
* Opinion leader of the new left?
* The historians' debate
* Habermas as a sceptic towards reunification
* Chapter 10: Against Germanomania and Nationalism
* Habermas's ambiguous attitude towards military interventions
* The Asylum Debate
* A memorial to the murdered Jews
* Part IV: Cosmopolitan Society and Justice
* Chapter 11: Critique as a Vocation. The Transition into the Third Millennium
* A plea for freedom of the will and the inviolability of the person
* The philosopher as globetrotter
* Many honours and an affair
* Chapter 12: The Taming of Capitalism and the Democratization of Europe
* Democratic politics ? a counterbalance to capitalism?
* European integration
* On the way to a democratically constituted world order
* Chapter 13: Philosophy in the Age of Postmetaphysical Modernity
* What can I know? - Linguistic pragmatics as a form of naturalism and realism
* What should I do? From the demand of virtue to the assumption of rationality
* What may I hope? Religion in a post-secular society
* What is Man? Language and Intersubjectivity
* Chapter 14: Books at an Exhibition
* Consciousness-Raising and Rescuing Critique
* Epilogue: The Inner Compass
* Notes
* Appendix
* * Genealogy
* Chronology
* List of Habermas's lectures and seminars
* Bibliography
* List of archives
* Illustration credits
* Index