White Stephen K. (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Habermas

Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. — 368 p. — (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy). — ISBN: 0-521-44120-X.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 most recent publication. Among the topics discussed are: his relationship to Marx and the Frankfurt School of critical theory, his unique contributions to the philosophy of social sciences, the concept of "communicative ethics," and the critique of postmodernism. Particular attention is paid to Habermas' recent work on democratic theory and the constitutional state.Reason, modernity, and democracy / Stephen K. White
Identity and difference in the ethical positions of Adorno and Habermas / Romand Coles
What's left of Marx? / Nancy S. Love
Universalism and the situated critic / Max Pensky
Critical theory as a research program / John S. Dryzek
Communicative rationality and cultural values / Georgia Warnke
Practical discourse and communicative ethics / J. Donald Moon
The self in discursive democracy / Mark E. Warren
Democracy and the "Rechtsstaat": Habermas's "Faktizität und Geltung" / Kenneth Baynes
Discourse and democratic practices / Simone Chambers
Habermas's significant other / Tracy B. Strong and Frank Andreas Sposito
The other of justice: Habermas and the ethical challenge of post modernism / Axel Honneth