Reflection Revisited: Jurgen Habermas' Discursive Theory of Truth
Jurgen Habermas, particularly in his master work Theory of Communicative Action (1981), takes us several of the basic insights of the philosophical tradition of reflection initiated by Kant, and sets it on a new and highly original emancipative path. He claims that reflection not only can determine the limits of reasoning about thought and action, but also can grasp the limits that human agents face in freeing themselves form unjust social and economic structures. Human agents can engage in...
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Jurgen Habermas, particularly in his master work Theory of Communicative Action (1981), takes us several of the basic insights of the philosophical tradition of reflection initiated by Kant, and sets it on a new and highly original emancipative path. He claims that reflection not only can determine the limits of reasoning about thought and action, but also can grasp the limits that human agents face in freeing themselves form unjust social and economic structures. Human agents can engage in constructive and emancipative communication with others by determining the limits not of their own consciousness, but of the intersubjective structures shared in everyday communication. Reflection Revisited examines Habermas' own two-stage development of this theory of emancipative reflection and explicates how he applies reflection specifically to the problems of personal identity development and ethics. Booknews Examines Habermas' two-stage development of his theory of emancipative reflection, particularly as set out in (1981), and explicates how he applies reflection specifically to the problems of personal identity development and ethics. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
AbbreviationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Reflection and Validity11Habermas's Critique of the Use of Reflection in Theories of Consciousness182The Early Habermas and the Development of Psychoanalytic Reflection and Normative Discourse863Habermas's Development of a Reflective Acceptability Theory of Truth1174Reflective Acceptability in Discourse Ethics and Ego-Identity Development1835The Temporal Background Conditions of Discourse230Bibliography271Index291
\ BooknewsExamines Habermas' two-stage development of his theory of emancipative reflection, particularly as set out in (1981), and explicates how he applies reflection specifically to the problems of personal identity development and ethics. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
