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Title: Habermas
Condition: New
Subtitle: An Intellectual Biography
Author: Matthew G. Specter
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780521738316
ISBN: 9780521738316
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Release Date: 27/09/2010
Description: This book follows postwar Germany's leading philosopher and social thinker, Jürgen Habermas, through four decades of political and constitutional struggle over the shape of liberal democracy in Germany. Habermas's most influential theories - of the public sphere, communicative action, and modernity - were decisively shaped by major West German political events: the failure to de-Nazify the judiciary, the rise of a powerful Constitutional Court, student rebellions in the late 1960s, the changing fortunes of the Social Democratic Party, NATO's decision to station nuclear weapons, and the unexpected collapse of East Germany. In turn, Habermas's writings on state, law, and constitution played a critical role in reorienting German political thought and culture to a progressive liberal-democratic model. Matthew Specter uniquely illuminates the interrelationship between the thinker and his culture.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 228mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Width: 16mm
Item Weight: 390g
Release Year: 2010

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