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The Postnational Constellation
translated, edited, and with an introduction by Max Pensky Does a global economy render the traditional nation-state obsolete? Does globalization threaten democratic life, or offer …
The Struggle for Recognition
In this pathbreaking study, Axel Honneth argues that "the struggle for recognition" is, and should be, at the center of social conflicts. Moving smoothly between moral philosophy …
Reason in the Age of Science
"This collection of probing and lucidly written essays shows Gadamer as the leading Continental philosopher after Heidegger....".
The Persistence of Modernity: Essays on Aesthetics, Ethics, and Postmodernism
four essays, drawn from two books by one of Germany's foremost philosophers, go to the heart of a number of contemporary issues: Adorno's aesthetics, the nature of a postmodern …
History and Structure
Well-written, clear and informed, the study does much to clarify the present discourse between the Frankfurt School's critical theorists and the structuralisms.Well-written, clear …
Critique and Power
The book juxtaposes key texts from Foucault and Habermas; it then adds a set of reactions and commentaries by theorists who have taken up the two alternative approaches to power …
Civil Society and Political Theory
In this first serious work on the theory of civil society to appear in many years, Jean Cohen and Andrew Arato contend that the concept of civil society articulates a contested …
Self-Consciousness and Self-Determination
This book seeks to clarify the precise structure of self-consciousness and self-determination and elucidates their significance for our philosophical understanding of …
Global Justice and Transnational Politics
If globalization is to be a benefit and not a burden to humankind, it must be governed by global institutions that are perceived by all people to be democratic and just. But before …
The Dialectics of Seeing
Walter Benjamin's magnum opus was a book he did not live to write. In The Dialectics of Seeing, Susan Buck-Morss offers an inventive reconstruction of the Passagen Werk, or Arcades …
Habermas and the Public Sphere
In this book, scholars from a wide range of disciplines respond to Habermas's most directly relevant work, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. The relationship …
The Ubiquity of the Finite
What are the assumptions and tasks hidden in contemporary calls to "overcome" the metaphysical tradition? Reflecting upon the internal contradictions of the notions of "tradition" …