This long-awaited book sets out the implications of Habermas's theory of communicative action for moral theory. "Discourse ethics" attempts to reconstruct a moral point of view from which normative claims can be impartially judged. The theory of justice it develops replaces Kant's categorical imperative with a procedure of justification based on reasoned agreement among participants in practical discourse.Habermas connects communicative ethics to the theory of social action via an examination of research in the social psychology of moral and interpersonal development. (...) He aims to show that our basic moral intuitions spring from something deeper and more universal than contingent features of our tradition, namely from normative presuppositions of social interaction that belong to the repertoire of competent agents in any society. Jürgen Habermas is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt. (shrink)

A major contribution to contemporary social theory. Not only does it provide a compelling critique of some of the main perspectives in 20th century philosophy and social science, but it also presents a systematic synthesis of the many themse which have preoccupied Habermas for thirty years. --Times Literary Supplement.

Designed for both undergraduate and graduate courses, Philosophic Inquiry in Sport is a combination of 56 classic and contemporary essays that strike a balance between analytical, existential, and phenomenological perspectives.

pt. 1. The proposition and its sense.--pt. 2. On logic and mathematics.

Theory of Communicative Action, Volume 2 is a Beacon Press publication.

Habermas's 1971 Gauss Lectures, plus two additional essays, outlining an intersubjective approach to social theory.