Jürgen Habermas
Germany's most influential living philosopher, Habermas developed a theory of communicative action grounding democratic legitimacy in rational discourse. The Theory of Communicative Action is his major work; his concept of the public sphere has been enormously productive across the social sciences. He is the inheritor of the Frankfurt School tradition.
Works
- The Theory of Communicative ActionTheory of communicative rationality and ideal speech situations
- The Structural Transformation of the Public SphereHistorical transformation of public sphere and rational-critical discourse
- Knowledge and Human InterestsInquiry into relationship between knowledge, interests, and human emancipation
- Between Facts and NormsTheory of law, morality, and rational legitimacy in modern society
- The Philosophical Discourse of ModernityAnalysis of postmodern thinking and defense of Enlightenment rationality
- Moral Consciousness and Communicative ActionEssays on ethics, universalism, and communicative moral reasoning