Jürgen Habermas

1929-present · German · Critical Theory, Social and Political Philosophy, Discourse Ethics

Modernity is an unfinished project.

Topics Jürgen Habermas addresses

• communicative action
• strategic versus communicative action
• the public sphere
• the bourgeois public sphere
• refeudalization of the public sphere
• the lifeworld
• the colonization of the lifeworld
• the uncoupling of system and lifeworld
• the steering media of money and power
• validity claims
• the ideal speech situation
• universal pragmatics
• discourse ethics
• the discourse principle (D)
• the universalization principle (U)
• performative contradiction
• rational reconstruction
• knowledge-constitutive interests
• the emancipatory interest
• systematically distorted communication
• legitimation crisis
• crisis tendencies in advanced capitalism
• postmetaphysical thinking
• the unfinished project of modernity

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