Habermas : an intellectual biography /
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Author / Creator: | Specter, Matthew G. (Matthew Goodrich), 1968- |
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Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 263 pages) |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11826592 |
Summary: | This book follows postwar Germany s leading philosopher and social thinker, J rgen Habermas, through four decades of political and constitutional struggle over the shape of liberal democracy in Germany. Habermas s most influential theories of the public sphere, communicative action, and modernity were decisively shaped by major West German political events: the failure to de-Nazify the judiciary, the rise of a powerful Constitutional Court, student rebellions in the late 1960s, the changing fortunes of the Social Democratic Party, NATO s decision to station nuclear weapons, and the unexpected collapse of East Germany. In turn, Habermas s writings on state, law, and constitution played a critical role in reorienting German political thought and culture to a progressive liberal-democratic model. Matthew Specter uniquely illuminates the interrelationship between the thinker and his culture. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 263 pages) |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-248) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780511909504 0511909500 9780511906718 0511906714 9780511763083 0511763085 9780521488037 0521488036 9780521738316 0521738318 |