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Truth and reality in Jürgen Habermas' Pragmatic Realism
… the notion of truth in the philosophy of Jürgen Habermas. It shows how Habermas' approach to truth changes during the years. In the '60s (chapter one) he maintains a weak kind of realism, connected to the idea of transcendental and natural interests at the basis of an emancipatory, …
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The concept rationality in the work of Jurgen Habermas
This study attempts to answer the question of how Habermas "re-thinks" or "reformulates" the concept of rationality and rationalization processes. The method is analytical. The early, later and most recent works of Habermas are analysed with the aim of showing that he approaches the c6ncept of …
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Juergen Habermas and Marx: Critique of an Incipient Public Sphere
<p>This study examines the relationship of Jurgen Habermas's ideas to those of Marx. A close reading of Habermas's major works, in conjunction with a close reading as well of the Marx texts he analyzes, comprises the thematically first part. The Habermas texts include the following, with original …
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Religion, myth, and rationality : some of Habermas' views on religion
The topic of this thesis is Jurgen Habermas' views on religion, especially in his two volumes The Theory of Communicative Action. The introduction presents the sociological and the philosophical contexts in which Habermas' views may be understood. Part I is a reading of the main sections of The …
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Razón y normatividad. El debate entre Jürgen Habermas y Niklas Luhmann
La controversia entre JürgenHabermas y NiklasLuhmann estuvo vigente durante aproximadamente tres décadas. El punto de inicio fue una obra conjunta publicada en 1971 (Teoría de la sociedad o tecnología social). El desenlace, el fallecimiento de Luhmann en 1998. Durante este periodo, la obra de ambos …
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Social justice after Kant: Between constructivism and deconstruction (Rawls, Habermas, Levinas, Derrida)
… and reconstructive projects of Rawls and Habermas on the one hand, and the deconstructive projects of Levinas and Derrida on the other. First, I identify the central difference between the two projects, reconstructing each account of justice as it develops in relation to Kant s practical …
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A Social Critique of Reflexive Reason: Relocating Critical Theory After Habermas and Foucault
"Chapters Four and Five present Foucault's genealogies as an externalist critique of reflexive agency. Contrary to the interpretation that genealogy dispenses with agency and precludes critique, I argue that our constitution as reflexive agents, and our capacity for taking normative stances and …
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E-Business assimilation in the context of Saudi Arabia : utilising Habermas' lifeworld and system theory
… that the stakeholders encounter. Grounded in Habermas‘ Critical Social Theory (CST), this study applies the theory of lifeworld and system to understand the relevance of the Islamic faith as well as the Arab culture in the conduct of businesses in Saudi Arabia, which in turn, would make …
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Revisiting Habermas's colonisation thesis: towards a communicative transformation of the theory of reification
… of late capitalist societies, I revisit Jürgen Habermas’s (1984; 1987) thesis of the colonization of the lifeworld to outline a critical theory of neoliberalism. Synthesizing the theories of Axel Honneth, Niklas Luhmann, and Talcott Parsons, this thesis is composed of several critical excurses …
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The theory of communicative action and the aesthetic moment: Habermas and the (neo)Nietzschean challenge
… philosophical orientations of Jurgen Habermas's theory of communicative action and (neo)Nietzschean conceptions of an aesthetic, affective ethos of self-formation. Despite his recognition of the pathological hubris of modern, instrumental forms of rationality, Habermas argues that a …
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The expressionist debate in the light of the concerns of postmodernity : Lukacs, Brecht, Lyotard and Habermas
… between Jean-Francais Lyotard and Juergen Habermas. which took place in the 1980s. The two debates. both of which took place among writers of the Left are juxtaposed in order to shed more light on the issues at stake in the Expressionist Debate when looked at in the light of postmodern …
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The Rise Of The Social And The Change In The Political: A Consideration Of Arendt, Habermas, And Foucault
… within the work of Hannah Arendt, Jürgen Habermas, and Michel Foucault. I examine the unexamined connections and commonalities among the works of these three preeminent political theorists with the aim of understanding our common, contemporary construction of "the political." Specifically, …
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Modernity, crisis and critique: an examination of rival philosophical conceptions in the work of Jürgen Habermas and Charles Taylor
… and critique developed in the work of Jürgen Habermas and Charles Taylor. Since the publication of Habermas's highly influential The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity in the mid-1980s, scholarship on the conceptions of modernity and critique contained therein has gained its keenest focus in …
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Habermas and the Feminist Engagement with Communicative Ethics: Solidarity and Utopian Interests as a Corrective to Normative Political Problematics
My dissertation subjects Habermas to a critique inspired by ethical and political feminist philosophy. Whereas Habermas believes particularized political interests are foundational for communicative ethics, neo-Marxist feminists argue that he makes naïve assumptions about the separation of public …
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A critical-theoretic study of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission : with reference to the work of Jurgen Habermas
By using the work of Jurgen Habermas as my central focus the objective of this thesis was to judge whether the ideas that he has formulated in different bodies of work illuminate the problems and prospects for sustained democratic development in a country that has been affected by the impact of a …
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