The Principle of Hope, Volume 2

Ernst Bloch

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought | nr. 2
• The Principle of Hope is one of the great works of the human spirit. It is a critical history of the utopian vision and a profound exploration of the ... Lees meer

Critique and Crisis

Reinhart Koselleck

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
• Critique and Crisis established Reinhart Koselleck's reputation as the most important German intellectual historian of the postwar period. This first ... Lees meer

Public Deliberation

James Bohman

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
• Bohman develops a realistic model of deliberation by gradually introducing and analyzing the major tests facing deliberative democracy: cultural plura... Lees meer

Adorno's Negative Dialectic

Brian O'Connor

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
• The purely philosophical concerns of Theodor W. Adorno's negative dialectic would seem to be far removed from the concreteness of critical theory; Ado... Lees meer

History and Structure

Alfred Schmidt

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
• Well-written, clear and informed, the study does much to clarify the present discourse between the Frankfurt School's critical theorists and the struc... Lees meer

The Principle of Hope, Volume 3

Ernst Bloch

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought | nr. 3
• The Principle of Hope is one of the great works of the human spirit. It is a critical history of the utopian vision and a profound exploration of the ... Lees meer

Perpetual Peace

• Paperback | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
• The authors argue for the continued theoretical and practical relevance of the cosmopolitan ideals of Kant's essay "Toward Perpetual Peace: A Philosop... Lees meer

Democracy across Borders

James Bohman

• Hardcover | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
• An innovative conception of democracy for an era of globalization and delegation of authority beyond the nation-state: rule by peoples across borders ... Lees meer

Critique and Power

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
• The book juxtaposes key texts from Foucault and Habermas; it then adds a set of reactions and commentaries by theorists who have taken up the two alte... Lees meer

Civil Society and Political Theory

Jean L Cohen, Andrew Arato

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
• In this first serious work on the theory of civil society to appear in many years, Jean Cohen and Andrew Arato contend that the concept of civil socie... Lees meer

Fate and Utopia in German Sociology, 1870-1923

Harry Liebersohn

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
• Fate and Utopia in German Sociology provides a lucid introduction to a major sociological tradition in Western thought. It is an intellectual history ... Lees meer

Perversion and Utopia

Joel Whitebook

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
• In this sweeping challenge to the postmodern critiques of psychoanalysis, Joel Whitebook argues for a reintegration of Freud's uncompromising investig... Lees meer

Global Justice and Transnational Politics

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
• If globalization is to be a benefit and not a burden to humankind, it must be governed by global institutions that are perceived by all people to be d... Lees meer

The Persistence of Modernity

Albrecht Wellmer

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
• Essays on Adorno's aesthetics, the nature of a postmodern ethics, and the persistence of modernity in the so-called postmodern age. The Persistence of... Lees meer

Between Philosophy and Social Science

Max Horkheimer

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
• These essays reveal another side of Horkheimer, focusing on his remarkable contributions to critical theory in the 1930s. Max Horkheimer is well known... Lees meer

Habermas and the Unfinished Project of Modernity

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• This collection of ten essays offers the first systematic assessment of Jurgen Habermas's Philosophical Discourse of Modernity, a book that defended t... Lees meer

The Struggle for Recognition

Axel Honneth

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
• In this pathbreaking study, Axel Honneth argues that "the struggle for recognition" is, and should be, at the center of social conflicts. Moving smoot... Lees meer

On the Pragmatics of Social Interaction

Jürgen Habermas

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
• In 1971 Jürgen Habermas delivered the Gauss Lectures at Princeton University. These pivotal lectures, entitled Reflections on the Linguistic Foundatio... Lees meer

Postmetaphysical Thinking

Jurgen Habermas

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
• This collection of Habermas's recent essays on philosophical topics continues the analysis begun in The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity. In a sho... Lees meer

Political Romanticism

Carl Schmitt

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
• Carl Schmitt (1888-1985), the author of such books as Political Theology and The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy (both published in English by The M... Lees meer

On Walter Benjamin

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
• Bringing together the best critical essays on one of the most fascinating literary figures of our time, this book immediately takes its place as a maj... Lees meer

Futures Past

Reinhart Koselleck

• Paperback | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
• In these fifteen essays, one Of Germany's most distinguished philosophers of history invokes an extraordinary array of witnesses and texts to explore ... Lees meer

Theory and Politics

Helmut Dubiel

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
• This important study of the relationship between historical developments and the work of the scholars associated with the Frankfurt Institute for Soci... Lees meer

G. H. Mead

Hans Joas

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
• This major study reassesses the work of the American pragmatist George Herbert Mead (1863-1931), which had a significant impact in fields ranging from... Lees meer