History and Structure

Alfred Schmidt

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
• Well-written, clear and informed, the study does much to clarify the present discourse between the Frankfurt School's critical theorists and the struc... Lees meer

The Legitimacy of the Modern Age

Hans Blumenberg

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
• In this major work, Blumenberg takes issue with Karl Löwith's well-known thesis that the idea of progress is a secularized version of Christian eschat... Lees meer

Justification and Application

Jürgen Habermas

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
• This collection of four essays and an interview contains Habermas's most recent contributions to ethical theory. It expands and clarifies the work on ... Lees meer

The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity

Jurgen Habermas

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
• This critique of French philosophy and the history of German philosophy is a tour de force that has the immediacy and accessibility of the lecture for... Lees meer

Political Romanticism

Carl Schmitt

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
• Carl Schmitt (1888-1985), the author of such books as Political Theology and The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy (both published in English by The M... Lees meer

Between Philosophy and Social Science

Max Horkheimer

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
• These essays reveal another side of Horkheimer, focusing on his remarkable contributions to critical theory in the 1930s. Max Horkheimer is well known... Lees meer

Habermas and the Public Sphere

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
• In this book, scholars from a wide range of disciplines respond to Habermas's most directly relevant work, The Structural Transformation of the Public... Lees meer

Habermas and the Unfinished Project of Modernity

• Paperback | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
• This collection of ten essays offers the first systematic assessment of Jurgen Habermas's Philosophical Discourse of Modernity, a book that defended t... Lees meer

Civil Society and Political Theory

Jean L Cohen, Andrew Arato

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
• 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 socie... Lees meer

Work on Myth

Hans Blumenberg

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
• In this rich examination of how we inherit and transform myths, Hans Blumenberg continues his study of the philosophical roots of the modern world. Wo... Lees meer

On Walter Benjamin

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
• Bringing together the best critical essays on one of the most fascinating literary figures of our time, this book immediately takes its place as a maj... Lees meer

Theory and Politics

Helmut Dubiel

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
• This important study of the relationship between historical developments and the work of the scholars associated with the Frankfurt Institute for Soci... Lees meer

On the Pragmatics of Social Interaction

Jürgen Habermas

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
• In 1971 Jürgen Habermas delivered the Gauss Lectures at Princeton University. These pivotal lectures, entitled Reflections on the Linguistic Foundatio... Lees meer

The Utopian Function of Art and Literature

Ernst Bloch

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
• Essays in aesthetics by the philosopher Ernst Bloch that belong to the tradition of cultural criticism represented by Georg Lukács, Theodor Adorno, an... Lees meer

Public Deliberation

James Bohman

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
• Bohman develops a realistic model of deliberation by gradually introducing and analyzing the major tests facing deliberative democracy: cultural plura... Lees meer

Nietzsche and Political Thought

Mark (University Of British Columbia) Warren

• Paperback | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
• Nietzsche and Political Thought reclaims the political implications of Friedrich Nietzche's work. Lees meer

The Genesis of the Copernican World

Hans Blumenberg

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
• This major work by the German philosopher Hans Blumenberg is a monumental rethinking of the significance of the Copernican revolution for our understa... Lees meer

Prisms

Theodor W Adorno

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
• Prisms, essays in cultural criticism and society, is the work of a critic and scholar who has had a marked influence on contemporary American and Germ... Lees meer

Democracy across Borders

James Bohman

• Hardcover | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
• An innovative conception of democracy for an era of globalization and delegation of authority beyond the nation-state: rule by peoples across borders ... Lees meer

Adorno's Negative Dialectic

Brian O'Connor

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
• The purely philosophical concerns of Theodor W. Adorno's negative dialectic would seem to be far removed from the concreteness of critical theory; Ado... Lees meer

Self-Consciousness and Self-Determination

Ernst Tugendhat

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
• A unique synthesis of the contemporary, Anglo-American philosophical approach with an abiding concern for classical philosophical problems. This book ... Lees meer

On the Logic of the Social Sciences

Jurgen Habermas

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
• For two decades, the German edition of this classic has been a standard reference point for discussions of the social sciences. Lees meer

Reason in the Age of Science

Hans-Georg Gadamer

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
• The essays in this book deal broadly with the question of what form reasoning about life and society can take in a culture permeated by scientific and... Lees meer

Critique and Power

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
• 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 alte... Lees meer