Gorm Harste

The Habermas-Luhmann Debate

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Produktbeschreibung

Fifty years ago, the two leading German philosophers and sociologists since the Second World War, JÃ rgen Habermas and Niklas Luhmann, embarked on a sweeping and contentious debate that would continue for decades. This is the first book in English about one of the most important conflicts in social theory today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 151mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9780231159159
• ISBN-10: 0231159153
• Artikelnr.: 60587917

Autorenporträt

Gorm Harste is associate professor of political science at Aarhus University. He is a specialist in theories of European state building, and his books in English include Law and Intersystemic Communication: Understanding "Structural Coupling" (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments
Part I: A Debate Unlike Any Other
Introduction
1. The Historical Context of the Debate
Part II: Meaning, Language, and Communication
2. How a Debate Takes Off
3. Intersubjectivity and Lifeworld
Part III: Between History and Evolution
4. History and Evolution: The Initial Debates
5. Evolution and History: The Harvest (1977- )
Part 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- )
Part V: Further Debates
9. Broader Perspectives-Luhmann, Habermas, Foucault, and Bourdieu
Epilogue: Habermas's Limitations to Secularization (2019)
Notes
Reference List
Index