Habermas and Pragmatism

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Edited by Michell Aboulafia, Myra Bookman and Cathy Kemp

Routledge

Due/Published February 2002, 240 pages, paper

ISBN 041523459X

This collection explores the connections between Habermas's body of work and pragmatism. Investigating the influences of pragmatism on Habermas' thought are essays by Habermas himself, leading representatives of pragmatism, as well as critical and legal theorists. The essays cover a range of subjects including philosophy of language, democracy, nature of rationality and social theory as well as the relation of major figures such as Hegel, Pierce, Mead and Dewey to Habermas and pragmatism.

Contributors include: Nancy Fraser, Karl-Otto Apel, Richard Shusterman, and Jurgen Habermas