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The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society

– The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society. Translated by Thomas Burger. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991; German: Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit. Luchterhand, 1962.
From the publisher: This is Jurgen Habermas’s most concrete historical-sociological book and one of the key contributions to political thought in the postwar period. It will be a… More

Toward a Rational Society: Student Protest, Science, and Politics

– Toward a Rational Society: Student Protest, Science, and Politics. Translated by Jeremy Shapiro. Boston: Beacon Press, 1971; German: Protestbewegung und Hochschulreform. Suhrkamp, 1969.
From the publisher: Knowledge, communication, action – These are the concepts central to all of Habermas’s thought. As a philosopher, he is concerned with the rational connections… More

Knowledge and Human Interests

– Knowledge and Human Interests. Translated by Jeremy Shapiro. Boston: Beacon Press, 1972; German: Erkenntnis und Interesse. Suhrkamp, 1969.

On the Logic of the Social Sciences

– On the Logic of the Social Sciences. Translated by Shierry Weber Nicholsen and Jerry A. Stark. Boston: MIT Press, 1990; German: Zur Logik der Sozialwissenschaften. Suhrkamp, 1970.
From the publisher: For two decades the German edition of this book has been a standard reference point for students of the philosophy of the social sciences in Germany. Today it still… More

Theory and Practice

– Theory and Practice. Translated by John Viertel. Boston: Beacon Press, 1988; German: Theorie und Praxis. Suhrkamp, 1971.
From the publisher: Theory and Practice is one of Habermas’s major works and is widely recognized as a classic in contemporary and social and political theory. Through a series of… More

Legitimation Crisis

– Legitimation Crisis. Translated by Thomas McCarthy. Boston: Beacon Press, 1975; German: Legitimationsprobleme im Spätkapitalismus. Suhrkamp, 1973.
From the publisher: Critical Theory originated in the perception by a group of German Marxists after the First World War that the Marxist analysis of capitalism had become deficient both… More

Communication and the Evolution of Society

– Communication and the Evolution of Society. Tranlsated by Thomas McCarthy. Boston: Beacon Press, 1979; German: Zur Rekonstruktion des Historischen Materialismus. Suhrkamp, 1976.
From the publisher: Some thirty years ago Jürgen Habermas introduced the idea of analyzing contemporary society from a historical and practical standpoint while remaining faithful to the… More

Theory of Communicative Action, Vol. I — Reason and the Rationalization of Society

– Theory of Communicative Action, Volume I, Reason and the Rationalization of Society. Translated by Thomas McCarthy. Boston: Beacon Press, 1984; German: Handlungsrationalität und gesellschaftliche Rationalisierung. Suhrkamp, 1981.
From the Times Literary Supplement: A major contribution to contemporary social theory. Not only does it provide a compelling critique of some of the main perspectives in 20th century… More

Theory of Communicative Action, Vol. II — Lifeworld and System: A Critique of Functionalist Reason

– Theory of Communicative Action, Volume II, Lifeworld and System: A Critique of Functionalist Reason. Translated by Thomas McCarthy. Boston: Beacon Press, 1985; German: Zur Kritik der funktionalistischen Vernunft. Suhrkamp, 1981.
From the publisher: Jurgen Habermas opens Volume 2 with a brilliant reinterpretation of Mead and Durkheim and then develops his own approach to society, combining two hitherto competing… More

Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action

– Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action. Translated by Christian Lenhardt and Shierry Weber Nicholsen. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001; German: Moralbewußtsein und kommunikatives Handeln. Suhrkamp, 1983.
From the publisher: This long-awaited book sets out the implications of Habermas’s theory of communicative action for moral theory. “Discourse ethics” attempts to… More

On the Pragmatics of Social Interaction: Preliminary Studies in the Theory of Communicative Action

– On the Pragmatics of Social Interaction: Preliminary Studies in the Theory of Communicative Action. Translated by Barbara Fultner. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001; German: Vorstudien und Ergänzungen zur Theorie des kommunicativen Handelns. Suhrkamp Verlag, 1984.
From the publisher: In 1971 Jürgen Habermas delivered the Gauss Lectures at Princeton University. These pivotal lectures, entitled “Reflections on the Linguistic Foundation of… More

Postmetaphysical Thinking

– Postmetaphysical Thinking. Translated by William Mark Hohengarten. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1994; German: Nachmetaphysisches Denken. Suhrkamp, 1988.
From the publisher:  This collection of Habermas’s recent essays on philosophical topics continues the analysis begun in The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity. In a short… More

The Past as Future

– The Past as Future. Translated and edited by Max Pensky. Omaha, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1994; German: Vergangenheit als Zukunft. Pendo-Verlag, 1990.
From the publisher: Jürgen Habermas is one of the best-known and most influential philosophers in Europe today. Heir to the Frankfurt school, his reputation rests on more than thirty years… More

Justification and Application: Remarks on Discourse Ethics

– Justification and Application: Remarks on Discourse Ethics. Tranlsated by Ciaran P. Cronin. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1994; German: Erläuterungen zur Diskursethik. Suhrkamp Verlag, 1991.
From the publisher: This collection of four essays and an interview contains Habermas’s most recent contributions to ethical theory. It expands and clarifies the work on discourse… More

Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy

– Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy. Translated by William Rehg. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1996; German: Faktizität und Geltung. Beiträge zur Diskurstheorie des Rechts und des demokratischen Rechtsstaats. Suhrkamp Verlag, 1992; 2nd edition 1994.
From the publisher: In Between Facts and Norms, Jürgen Habermas works out the legal and political implications of his Theory of Communicative Action (1981), bringing to fruition the… More

The Berlin Republic: Writings on Germany

– The Berlin Republic: Writings on Germany. Translated by Steven Rendall. University of Nebraska Press, 1997; German: Die Normalität einer Berliner Republik. Kleine politische Schriften VIII. Suhrkamp Verlag, 1995.
From the publisher: A Berlin Republic brings together writings on the new, united Germany by one of that country’s most original and trenchant commentators, Jürgen Habermas. Among other… More

The Inclusion of the Other

– The Inclusion of the Other. Edited by Ciaran P. Cronin and Pablo de De Greiff. Translated by Ciaran P. Cronin. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998; German: Die Einbeziehung des Anderen. Studien zur politischen Theorie. Suhrkamp Verlag, 1996.
From the publisher: Since its appearance in English translation in 1996, Jurgen Habermas’s Between Facts and Norms has become the focus of a productive dialogue between German and… More

The Liberating Power of Symbols

– The Liberating Power of Symbols. Translated by Peter Dews. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001; German: Vom sinnlichen Eindruck zum symbolischen Ausdruck: Philosophische Essays. Suhrkamp Verlag, 1997.
From the publisher: In this collection, Jurgen Habermas engages with a wide range of twentieth-century thinkers. The essays display Habermas’s appreciation for various intellectual… More

The Postnational Constellation

– The Postnational Constellation. Edited and translated by Max Pensky. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001; German: Die postnationale Konstellation: Politische Essays. Suhrkamp Verlag, 1998.
From the publisher: Does a global economy render the traditional nation-state obsolete? Does globalization threaten democratic life, or offer it new forms of expression? What are the… More

On the Pragmatics of Communication

– On the Pragmatics of Communication. Edited by Maeve Cooke. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998.
From the publisher: Jürgen Habermas’s program in formal pragmatics fulfills two main functions. First, it serves as the theoretical underpinning for his theory of communicative… More

Truth and Justification

– Truth and Justification. Translated by Barbara Fultner. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003; German: Wahrheit und Rechtfertigung: Philosophische Aufsätze. Suhrkamp Verlag, 1999.
From the publisher: Jurgen Habermas has developed the theory of communicative action primarily in the context of critical social and political theory and discourse ethics. The essays… More

Time of Transitions

– Time of Transitions. Edited by Ciaran Cronin. London: Polity Press, 2004; German: Zeit der Übergänge. Kleine politische Schriften IX. Suhrkamp Verlag, 2001.
From the publisher: We live in a time of turbulent change when many of the frameworks that have characterized our societies over the last few centuries – such as the international order… More

The Future of the Human Nature

– The Future of the Human Nature. Translated by Hella Beister and William Rehg. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2002; German: Die Zukunft der menschlichen Natur: Auf dem Weg zu einer liberalen Eugenik? Suhrkamp Verlag, 2001.
From the publisher: Recent developments in biotechnology and genetic research are raising complex ethical questions concerning the legitimate scope and limits of genetic intervention. As we… More

The Divided West

– The Divided West. Edited and translated by Ciaran Cronin. London: Polity Press, 2006; German: Der gespaltene Westen: Kleine politische Schriften X. Suhrkamp Verlag, 2004.
From the publisher: Make no mistake, the normative authority of the United States of America lies in ruins. Such is the judgment of the most influential thinker in Europe today reflecting… More

The Dialectics of Secularization: On Reason and Religion

– Habermas, Jurgen and Joseph Ratzinger. The Dialectics of Secularization: On Reason and Religion. Translated by Brian McNeil. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2007; German: Dialektik der Säkularisierung: Über Vernunft und Religion. Verlag Herder, 2005.
From the publisher: Two of the worlds great contemporary thinkers–theologian and churchman Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, and Jurgen Habermas, philosopher and Neo-Marxist… More

Between Naturalism and Religion

– Between Naturalism and Religion. Translated by Ciaran Cronin. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2008; German: Zwischen Naturalismus und Religion. Suhrkamp Verlag, 2005.
From the publisher: Two countervailing trends mark the intellectual tenor of our age the spread of naturalistic worldviews and religious orthodoxies. Advances in biogenetics, brain… More

Europe: The Faltering Project

– Europe: The Faltering Project. Translated by Ciaran Cronin. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2009; German: Ach Europa: Kleine politische Schriften XI. Suhrkamp Verlag, 2008.
From the publisher: The future of Europe and the role it will play in the 21st century are among the most important political questions of our time. The optimism of a decade ago has now… More

The Crisis of the European Union: A Response

– The Crisis of the European Union: A Response. Translated by Ciaran Cronin. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2012; German: Zur Verfassung Europas: Ein Essay. Suhrkamp Verlag, 2011.
From the publisher: In the midst of the current crisis that is threatening to derail the historical project of European unification, Jürgen Habermas has been one of the most perceptive… More

The Lure of Technocracy

– The Lure of Technocracy. Translated by Ciaran Cronin. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2015; German: Im Sog der Technokratie: Kleine politische Schriften XII. Suhrkamp Verlag, 2013.
From the publisher: Over the past 25 years, Jürgen Habermas has presented what is arguably the most coherent and wide-ranging defence of the project of European unification and of parallel… More

Essays

On Systematically Distorted Communication

– "On Systematically Distorted Communication." Inquiry 13.3 (1970) 205-218.
In this, the first of two articles outlining a theory of communicative competence, the author shows how the requirements of such a theory are to be found in an analysis not of the… More

Towards a Theory of Communicative Competence

– "Towards a Theory of Communicative Competence." Inquiry 13.4 (1970): 360-375.
In this, the second of two articles outlining a theory of communicative competence, the author questions the ability of Chomsky’s account of linguistic competence to fulfil the… More

Letter to Tito

– Ayer, Alfred J., Noam Chomsky, Robert S. Cohen, Dagfinn Follesdal, and Juergen Habermas, et al. "Letter to Tito." The New York Review of Books. February 6, 1975.
“Dear Marshal Tito, The international community of scholars and scientists feels increasingly concerned about the news of repressive measures against intellectuals and attempts to… More

Talcott Parsons: Problems of Theory Construction

– "Talcott Parson: Problems of Theory Construction." Sociological Inquiry 51.3 (1981): 173–196.
According to Professor Habermas, Parsons’s later system paradigm is in conflict, to some extent, with his earlier action paradigm, as Menzies contended; but Parsons concealed the… More

A Reply to my Critics

– “A Reply to my Critics." In Habermas: Critical Debates, edited by John B. Thompson and David Held, 219-283. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1982.

Interpretive Social Science v. Hermeneutics

– "Interpretive Social Science v. Hermeneutics." In Social Science as Moral Inquiry, edited by Norma Hann, Robert N. Bellah, Paul Rabinow, and William M. Sullivan, 251-269. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983.

Law and Morality

– "Law and Morality." In The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, Volume VIII, edited by Sterling M. McMurrin, 217-280. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1988.

Concluding Remarks

– "Concluding Remarks." In Habermas and the Public Sphere, edited by Craig Calhourn, 462-479. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1992.

Overcoming the Past

– “Overcoming the Past.” New Left Review 203 (1994).
Interview with Jurgen Habermas and Adam Michnik.

Paradigms of Law

– “Paradigms of Law.” Cardozo Law Review 17 (1996): 771-784.

Coping with Contingencies: The Return of Historicism

– “Coping with Contingencies: The Return of Historicism.” In Debating the State of Philosophy: Habermas, Rorty, and Kolakowski, edited byJósef Niznik and John T. Sanders, 1-30. Westport, CT: Praeger Pub, 1996.

Beyond the Nation State?

– “Beyond the Nation State?” Peace Review 10.2 (1998): 235-239.
“Ironically, developed societies at century’s end must confront the return of a problem that they seemed, under the pressure of system rivalry, to have just solved. It is a… More

February 15, or What Binds Europeans Together

– “February 15, or What Binds Europeans Together.” Constellations 10.3 (2003): 291-297.
“We should not forget two dates: not the day the newspapers reported to their astonished readers the Spanish prime minister’s invitation to the other European nations willing to… More

Political Communication in Media Society. Does Democracy Still Enjoy an Epistemic Dimension? The Impact of Normative Theory on Empirical Research

– "Political Communication in Media Society. Does Democracy Still Enjoy an Epistemic Dimension? The Impact of Normative Theory on Empirical Research.” Communication Theory 16.4 (2006): 411-426.
I first compare the deliberative to the liberal and the republican models of democracy, and consider possible references to empirical research and then examine what empirical evidence there… More

How to Respond to the Ethical Question

– "How to Respond to the Ethical Question.” in The Derrida-Habermas Reader, edited by Lasse Thomassen, 115-127. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006.

The Language Game of Responsible Agency and the Problem of Free Will: How Can Epistemic Dualism Be Reconciled with Ontological Monism

– "The Language Game of Responsible Agency and the Problem of Free Will: How Can Epistemic Dualism Be Reconciled with Ontological Monism." in Philosophical Explorations 10.1 (2007): 13-50.
In this essay, I address the question of whether the indisputable progress being made by the neurosciences poses a genuine threat to the language game of responsible agency. I begin by… More

Notes on a Post-Secular Society

– "Notes on a Post-Secular Society." New Perspectives Quarterly 25.4 (2008): 17-29.
“A ‘post-secular’ society must at some point have been in a ‘secular’ state. The controversial term can therefore only be applied to the affluent societies of… More

On the Concept of Human Dignity and the Realist Utopia of Human Rights

– "On the Concept of Human Dignity and the Realist Utopia of Human Rights." Metaphilosophy 41 (2010): 464-480.
Human rights developed in response to specific violations of human dignity, and can therefore be conceived as specifications of human dignity, their moral source. This internal relationship… More

Europe’s Post-Democratic Era

– "Europe's Post-Democratic Era." Guardian, November 11, 2011.
“At European level, democratic institutions enter into a new constellation. One element involved in this is solidarity: once a constitutional community extends beyond the boundaries… More

Reply to My Critics

– "Reply to My Critics." In Habermas and Rawls: Disputing the Political, edited by James Gordon Finlayson & Fabian Freyenhagen, 283-304. New York: Routledge, 2011.

Reply to My Critics

– "Reply to My Critics." In Habermas and Religion, edited by Craig Calhoun, Eduardo Mendieta, and Jonathan Van Antwerpen. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013.

Commentary

Communication and Reconciliation: Habermas’ Critique of Adorno

– Honneth, Axel. "Communication and Reconciliation: Habermas' Critique of Adorno." Telos 39 (1979): 45-61.
At the time of Adorno’s death, Habermas pointed out a methodological bareness in Adorno’s work. According to him, Adorno’s theoretical veil no longer clothed the… More

Reason and Authority in Habermas: A Critique of the Critics

– White, Stephen K. "Reason and Authority in Habermas: A Critique of the Critics." The American Political Science Review 74.4 (1980): 1007-1017.
Some critics of Jürgen Habermas have charged that his ideas have an affinity with authoritarianism. This criticism rests on a fundamental misinterpretation of Habermas’ project for a… More

The Habermas Phenomenon

– Blitz, Mark. "The Habermas Phenomenon." National Affairs. Spring, 1983.
Excerpt: Jurgen Habermas is the “dominant figure on the intellectual scene in Germany today,” Thomas McCarthy tells us, and this is arguably so. His American and British influence is… More

Habermas on Communicative Action

– Tugendhat, Ernst. "Habermas on Communicative Action." In Social Action, edited by Gottfried Seebaß and R. Tuomela, 179-86. Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1985.
“Vis-à-vis the conception of communicative action as presented by Jürgen Habermas in the paper for this symposium and at greater length in his recent book Theorie des kommunikativen… More

Habermas and Modernity

– Bernstein, Richard, ed. Habermas and Modernity. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1985.
From the publisher: All of these essays focus on the concept of modernity in the philosophical work of Jurgen Habermas – an ambitious and carefully argued intellectual project that… More

The Critique of Functionalist Reason

– Benhabib, Seyla. "The Critique of Functionalist Reason." In Critique, Norm, and Utopia, 224-278. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986.
From the American Political Science Review (about Critique, Norm, and Utopia): Displaying an impressive command of complex materials, Seyla Benhabib reconstructs the history of theories… More

Formal Pragmatics and Social Criticism

– Bohman, James. "Formal Pragmatics and Social Criticism: The Philosophy of Language and the Critique of Ideology in Habermas's Theory of Communicative Action." Philosophy and Social Criticism 11.4 (1986): 331-353.

Hermeneutics and the Critique of Ideology

– Warnke, Georgia. "Hermeneutics and the Critique of Ideology." In Gadamer: Hermeneutics, Tradition and Reason. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987.
Outline of the Chapter: 1. Habermas’s Review of Truth and Method 2. Apel’s Critique of Hermeneutics 3. Habermas’s Second Response to Gadamer 4. Unconstrained Communication… More

The Recent Work of Jürgen Habermas: Reason, Justice and Modernity

– White, Stephen K. The Recent Work of Jürgen Habermas: Reason, Justice and Modernity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
From the publisher: Jurgen Habermas is one of the foremost philosophers and social theorists in the world today, but the complexity and breadth of his thought make him often difficult to… More

Dworkin, Habermas, and the CLS Movement on Moral Criticism in Law

– Ingram, David. "Dworkin, Habermas, and the CLS Movement on Moral Criticism in Law." Philosophy and Social Criticism 16 (1990): 237-268.
CLS advocates renew Marx’s critique of liberalism by impugning the rationality of formal rights. Habermas and Dworkin argue against this view, while showing how liberal polity might… More

On the Relation of Morality to Politics

– McCarthy, Thomas. "On the Relation of Morality to Politics." In Habermas and the Public Sphere, edited by Craig J. Calhoun, 51-72. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1992.

Postmodernism and the Public Sphere

– Villa, Dana R. "Postmodernism and the Public Sphere." The American Political Science Review 86.3 (1992): 712-721.
The idea of the public sphere, of an institutionalized arena of discursive interaction, is central to democratic theory and practice. The modern age has, however, witnessed the erosion of a… More

Law in Habermas’s Theory of Communicative Action

– Deflem, Mathieu. "Law in Habermas's Theory of Communicative Action." Philosophy and Social Criticism 20.4 (1994): 1-20.
This paper outlines and reviews the legal theory of Jurgen Habermas in the context of Habermas’s general social theory, known as the theory of communicative action. First explained… More

The Frankfurt School: Its History, Theories, and Political Significance

– Wiggershaus, Rolf. The Frankfurt School: Its History, Theories, and Political Significance. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995.
From the publisher: This is the definitive study of the history and accomplishments of the Frankfurt School. It offers elegantly written portraits of the major figures in the school’s… More

Feminists Read Habermas

– Meehan, Johanna, ed. Feminists Read Habermas. London: Routledge, 1995.
From the publisher: This important new collection considers Jurgen Habermas’s discourse theory from a variety of feminist vantage points. Feminist scholars have been drawn to… More

The Cambridge Companion to Habermas

– White, Stephen K., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Habermas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
From the publisher: This volume examines the historical and intellectual contexts out of which Habermas’ work emerged, and offers an overview of his main ideas, including those in his… More

Public Deliberation: Pluralism, Complexity, and Democracy

– Bohman, James. Public Deliberation: Pluralism, Complexity, and Democracy. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996.
From the publisher: How can we create a vital and inclusive pluralistic democracy? Public Deliberation offers answers to this question by showing how democratic theory and democratic… More

What is a Validity Claim?

– Heath, Joseph. “What is a Validity Claim?” Philosophy and Social Criticism 24.4 (1998): 23-41.
Even though the concept of a ‘validity claim’ is central to Habermas’s theory of communicative action, he has never given a precise definition of the term. He has stated… More

The Linguistic Turn in Hermeneutic Philosophy

– Lafont, Cristina. The Linguistic Turn in Hermeneutic Philosophy. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999.
From the publisher: The linguistic turn in German philosophy was initiated in the eighteenth century in the work of Johann Georg Hamann, Johann Gottfried von Herder, and Wilhelm von… More

Habermas: A Critical Reader

– Dews, Peter, ed. Habermas: A Critical Reader. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.
From the publisher: Comprised of classic and newly-commissioned papers from leading theorists, this volume provides a wide-ranging critical introduction to the thought of Jurgen Habermas.… More

Gadamer: Between Heidegger and Habermas

– Scheibler, Ingrid. Gadamer: Between Heidegger and Habermas. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000.
Table of Contents: Part 1 Preface Part 2 Note on Translation Part 3 Abbreviations Part 4 Introduction Part 5 The Modernist Left: Habermas’s Critique of Gadamer I Chapter 6 Background… More

Social Labor and Communicative Action

– Fleming, Marie. "Social Labor and Communicative Action.” In Perspectives on Habermas, edited by Lewis E. Hahn, 445-461. Chicago: Open Court, 2000.

Feminism and Habermas’s Discourse Ethics

– Meehan, Johanna. "Feminism and Habermas's Discourse Ethics." Philosophy and Social Criticism 26.3 (2000): 39-52.
Habermas’ account of the radically intersubjective constitution of subjectivity is of great use to feminist theorists, as is his defense of the rational character of normative claims.… More

Communicative Action and Rational Choice

– Heath, Joseph. Communicative Action and Rational Choice. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001.
In this book Joseph Heath brings Jürgen Habermas’s theory of communicative action into dialogue with the most sophisticated articulation of the instrumental conception of… More

The Dilemmas of German Bioethics

– Brown, Eric B. "The Dilemmas of German Bioethics." The New Atlantis. Spring 2004.
Excerpt: Habermas’s project is a complicated one: As a “post-metaphysical” liberal in the Kantian tradition, he doesn’t believe philosophy can ask questions about the ultimate… More

Habermas: A Very Short Introduction

– Finlayson, Gordon. Habermas: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
From the publisher: Jürgen Habermas is the most renowned living German philosopher. This book aims to give a clear and readable overview of his philosophical work. It analyzes both the… More

The Inclusion of the Other? Habermas and the Paradox of Tolerance

– Thomassen, Lasse. "The Inclusion of the Other? Habermas and the Paradox of Tolerance." Political Theory 34.4 (2006): 439-462.
In his most recent work, Jürgen Habermas has proposed a deliberative account of tolerance where the norms of tolerance—including the threshold of tolerance and the norms regulating the… More

Between Decision and Deliberation: Political Paradox in Democratic Theory

– Honig, Bonnie. "Between Decision and Deliberation: Political Paradox in Democratic Theory." American Political Science Review, 101.1 (2007), 1-17.
Deliberative democratic theorists (in this essay, Seyla Benhabib and Jurgen Habermas) seek to resolve, manage, or transcend paradoxes of democratic legitimation or constitutional democracy.… More

From Havel to Habermas

– "From Havel to Habermas." The Economist. November 27, 2008.
Excerpt: They gripped the world, but left political philosophers yawning. According to Jürgen Habermas, a German philosopher, the revolutions that overturned decades of totalitarian rule… More

Reading Weber in Tehran

– Kurzman, Charles. "Reading Weber in Tehran." The Chronicle Review. November 1, 2009.
Excerpt: Max Weber is not alone in being blamed for the unrest in Iran. Other social theorists, like Jürgen Habermas, John Keane, Talcott Parsons, Richard Rorty, and unspecified feminists… More

Habermas: Introduction and Analysis

– Ingram, David. Habermas: Introduction and Analysis. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010.
From the publisher: The work of Jürgen Habermas (b. 1929) has been highly influential both in philosophy and across many disciplines in the social sciences. David Ingram here provides an… More

Habermas: The Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy

– Baxter, Hugh. Habermas: The Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011.
From the publisher: Though many legal theorists are familiar with Jürgen Habermas’s work addressing core legal concerns, they are not necessarily familiar with his earlier writings… More

What Happens When a Leftist Philosopher Discovers God?

– Berger, Peter. "What Happens When a Leftist Philosopher Discovers God?" The American Interest. Septermber 21, 2011.
Excerpt: Habermas is exactly my age. Our paths crossed briefly in the 1960s, when he was a visiting professor in the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, where I was then… More

Up From Zero Hour

– Gordon, Peter E. "Up From Zero Hour." The New Republic. January 11, 2011.
Excerpt: Jürgen Habermas ranks today as the single most important public intellectual in all of Continental Europe. But he is also a formidable philosopher whose major contributions to… More

‘No-Saying’ in Habermas

– White, Stephen K. and Evan Robert Farr. "'No-Saying' in Habermas." Political Theory 40.1 (2012): 32-57.
Habermas’s paradigm of communicative action is usually taken to be pretty much dominated by consensus, “Yes-saying.” What if this were a radically one-sided perception? We take up… More

The Good European: On Jurgen Habermas

– Babinbach, Anson. "The Good European: On Jurgen Habermas." The Nation. July 10, 2012.
Excerpt: Jürgen Habermas, Germany’s most famous contemporary philosopher, first contemplated the possibility of the European Union’s collapse in May 2010, when German Chancellor Angela… More

Rebooting Discourse Ethics

– Heath, Joseph. "Rebooting Discourse Ethics." Philosophy & Social Criticism 40.9 (2014): 819-866.
In this article I argue that the conception of discourse ethics that Jürgen Habermas advances in his seminar paper, ‘Discourse Ethics: Notes on a Program of Philosophical… More

Multimedia

Jürgen Habermas Interview

– YouTube, Uploaded on Feb 1, 2007.
Video footage of Jurgen Habermas discussing some of his theories

Lecture: “Myth and Ritual”

– Georgetown University, YouTube, Uploaded on Aug 14, 2012.
In this Berkley Center lecture, the philosopher Jürgen Habermas explored the evolution of myth and ritual, and their enduring significance for human societies, from a variety of… More

Lecture: “Democracy in Europe”

– Holberg Prize, YouTube, Uploaded on Oct 30, 2014.
Holberg Lecture by Jürgen Habermas at the University of Bergen, September 11th 2014. The Holberg Lectures was a series of lectures with previous Holberg Prize laureates held as part of the… More

Teaching