Lasse Thomassen

Deconstructing Habermas

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first book-length deconstructive study of the political philosophy of Jürgen Habermas. Inspired by the work of Jacques Derrida, the book applies deconstruction to key issues in Habermas's work: rational discourse and rational consensus, constitutional democracy, tolerance and civil disobedience.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 150mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 277g
• ISBN-13: 9780415541169
• ISBN-10: 0415541166
• Artikelnr.: 35452807

Autorenporträt

Lasse Thomassen is Lecturer in Political Theory in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the editor of Habermas: A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum, 2010) and, with Lars Tønder, co-editor of Radical democracy: Politics between abundance and lack (Manchester University Press, 2005).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Deconstructing Habermas 1. The Aporias of Rational Consensus
2. 'A Bizarre, even Opaque Practice': Constitutionalism and Democracy 3.
The Inclusion of the Other?: Tolerance 4. Civil Disobedience within the
Limits of Deliberative Reason Alone 5. Towards an Ethics of Discussion