Habermas: An Intellectual BiographyCambridge University Press, 27 sep 2010 This book follows postwar Germany's leading philosopher and social thinker, Jürgen Habermas, through four decades of political and constitutional struggle over the shape of liberal democracy in Germany. Habermas's most influential theories - of the public sphere, communicative action, and modernity - were decisively shaped by major West German political events: the failure to de-Nazify the judiciary, the rise of a powerful Constitutional Court, student rebellions in the late 1960s, the changing fortunes of the Social Democratic Party, NATO's decision to station nuclear weapons, and the unexpected collapse of East Germany. In turn, Habermas's writings on state, law, and constitution played a critical role in reorienting German political thought and culture to a progressive liberal-democratic model. Matthew Specter uniquely illuminates the interrelationship between the thinker and his culture. |
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2 Habermas as Synthesizer of German Constitutional Theory 19581963 | 59 |
From the Great Refusal to the Theory of Communicative Action | 87 |
Rethinking Germanys link to the West Westbindung 19781987 | 133 |
Recasting Democratic Theory 19841996 | 171 |
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Adorno Article Author’s private correspondence Basic Law basic rights Berlin Bonn Republic Bundesrepublik Carl Schmitt civil disobedience Communicative Action concept conservative constitutional law constitutionalism context correspondence with Habermas Critical Theory decision decisionist democracy Demokratie discourse emphasis added essay Federal Constitutional Court Federal Republic Forsthoff Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt School Frankfurt/Main German constitutional German statism Germany’s Godesburg Habermas argued Habermas wrote Habermas’s Helmut Historikerstreit Horkheimer Ibid ideology Institute Jürgen Habermas jurisprudence jurists lecture legal positivism legal theory liberal Lüth major Marcuse Max Weber modernity moral movement natural law neoconservatives orig Oskar Negt party philosopher political theory Politik popular sovereignty position postwar Press protest public sphere radical rational Rechtsstaat reform revolution rule of law Schelsky Smend Social Democratic socialist society statism Suhrkamp technocratic Testfall Theory of Communicative Third Reich tion tradition trans Transformation University values Weimar welfare West German Westbindung Western Wolfgang Abendroth