Habermas - Paperback

by Kenneth Baynes (Author)

Jürgen Habermas is one of the most important German philosophers and social theorists of the 20^th century. His work has been compared in scope with Max Weber's and in philosophical breadth to that of Kant and Hegel. This much-needed introduction engages with the full range of Habermas's philosophical work, and is a superb guide for anyone coming to his work for the first time.

Author Biography

Kenneth Baynes is Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University, USA. He works primarily in social and political philosophy, with a special focus in critical theory and modern and contemporary German philosophy. He is a co-editor of After Philosophy: End or Transformation? and Discourse and Democracy, and the author of The Normative Grounds of Social Criticism: Kant, Rawls and Habermas.