The Habermas-Luhmann Debate /

The Habermas-Luhmann Debate / / Gorm Harste.

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. Their coauthored 1971 book Theory of Society or Social Technology laid out their opposi...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
VerfasserIn:
Harste, Gorm,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • I. A DEBATE UNLIKE ANY OTHER
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF THE DEBATE
  • II. MEANING, LANGUAGE, AND COMMUNICATION
  • 2. HOW A DEBATE TAKES OFF
  • 3. INTERSUBJECTIVITY AND LIFEWORLD
  • III. BETWEEN HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
  • 4. HISTORY AND EVOLUTION: THE INITIAL DEBATES
  • 5. EVOLUTION AND HISTORY: THE HARVEST (1977– )
  • 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– )
  • V. FURTHER DEBATES
  • 9. BROADER PERSPECTIVES— LUHMANN, HABERMAS, FOUCAULT, AND BOURDIEU
  • EPILOGUE: HABERMAS’S LIMITATIONS TO SECULARIZATION (2019)
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCE LIST
  • INDEX

Similar Items