Truth and Justification (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)

✍ Scribed by Jürgen Habermas, Barbara Fultner

• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 350
• Series: Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Habermas remains the best philosopher living, one who is neither reactionary nor radical, just clear and above all balanced!

✦ Table of Contents

Translator’s Introduction......Page 8
Introduction: Realism after the Linguistic Turn......Page 24
1 Hermeneutic and Analytic Philosophy: Two Complementary Versions of the Linguistic Turn......Page 74
2 From Kant’s “Ideas” of Pure Reason to the “Idealizing” Presuppositions of Communicative Action: Reflections on the Detranscendentalized “Use of Reason”......Page 106
3 From Kant to Hegel: On Robert Brandom’s Pragmatic Philosophy of Language......Page 154
4 From Kant to Hegel and Back Again: The Move toward Detranscendentalization......Page 198
5 Norms and Values: On Hilary Putnam’s Kantian Pragmatism......Page 236
6 Rightness versus Truth: On the Sense of Normative Validity in Moral Judgments and Norms......Page 260
7 The Relationship between Theory and Practice Revisited......Page 300
Notes......Page 316
Index......Page 344