Truth and Justification (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)
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Author
Contributions
- Barbara Fultner (Translator) - Contributor
Publication
2003-10-01 - The MIT Press
Language
English
Word Count
87,250 words, Guess
Page Count
349 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL9549165M
- ISBN-139780262083188
- ISBN-100262083183
- OCLC Control Number50684036
- OCLC Control Numbertruthjustificati00habe
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2002190859
- Goodreads2436567
- LibraryThing411782
Classifications
- LCCB3258.H323 W3413 2003
Description
Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
Description
"Jurgen Habermas has developed the theory of communicative action primarily in the context of critical social and political theory and discourse ethics. The essays collected in this volume, however, focus on the theory's implications for epistemology and metaphysics. They address two fundamental issues that have not figured prominently in his work since the early 1970s. One is the question of naturalism: How can the ineluctable normativity of the perspective of agents interacting in a linguistically structured lifeworld be reconciled with the contingency of the emergence and evolution of forms of life? The other is a key problem facing epistemological realism after the linguistic turn: How can the assumption that there is an independently existing world be reconciled with the linguistic insight that we cannot have unmediated access to "brute" reality?" "Truth and Justification collects Habermas's major essays on these topics published since the mid-1990s. They offer detailed discussions of truth and objectivity as well as an account of the representational function of language in terms of the formal-pragmatic framework he has developed. In defending his post-Kantian pragmatism, Habermas draws on both the continental and analytic traditions and endorses a weak naturalism and a form of epistemological realism."--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
Once Frege replaced the mentalistic via regia of analyzing sensations, representations, and judgments with a semantic analysis of linguistic expressions and Wittgenstein radicalized the linguistic turn into a paradigm shift, Hume and Kant's epistemological questions could have taken on a new, pragmatic significance.
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