Habermas and Pragmatism

Habermas and Pragmatism

There are few living thinkers who have enjoyed the eminence and renown of Jürgen Habermas. His work has been highly influential not only in philosophy, but also in the fields of politics, sociology, and law. This is the first collection dedicated to exploring the connections between his body of work and America's most significant philosophical movement, pragmatism.

Habermas and Pragmatism considers the influence of pragmatism on Habermas's thought and the tensions between Habermasian social theory and pragmatism. Essays by distinguished pragmatists, legal and critical theorists, and Habermas cover a range of subjects including the philosophy of language, the nature of rationality, democracy, objectivity, transcendentalism, aesthetics, and law. The collection also addresses the relationship to Habermas of Kant, Peirce, Mead, Dewey, Piaget, Apel, Brandom, and Rorty.