Habermas: 60 books

Recent developments in biotechnology and genetic research are raising complex ethical questions concerning the legitimate scope and limits of genetic intervention. As we begin to contemplate the possibility of intervening in the human genome to prevent diseases, we cannot help but feel that the human...

In this wide-ranging work, now available in paperback, Habermas presents his views on the nature of the social sciences and their distinctive methodology and concerns. He examines, among other things, the traditional division between the natural sciences and the social sciences; the characteristics...

We live in a time of turbulent change when many of the frameworks that have characterized our societies over the last few centuries – such as the international order of sovereign nation-states – are being called into question. In this new volume of essays and interviews, Habermas focuses his attention...

Die Entwicklung der Biotechnologie kann, so Jürgen Habermas, zweifellos einer der bedeutendsten Philosophen und Soziologen der Gegenwart, durchaus zu begrüßenswerten medizinischen Fortschritten führen. Doch wo verläuft die Grenze zwischen Innovation und gefährlicher Entwicklung, zwischen therapeutischen...

I contatti con il mondo avvengono attraverso stimoli sensoriali che, rielaborati, diventano simboli carichi di significato: è questo quanto rende uomo l’uomo. In otto tra i suoi saggi più recenti, Jürgen Habermas si confronta con alcuni tra i maggiori pensatori del Novecento e riunifica i «frammenti...

A partire da un serrato confronto critico con il libro di Wolfgang Streeck Tempo guadagnato, Habermas ci offre una lucida riflessione sullo stato di salute del vecchio continente e delle democrazie liberali che finora ne hanno caratterizzato la facies politica. Analizzando la crisi in cui l’Europa...

A new edition of the highly acclaimed book Multiculturalism and "The Politics of Recognition," this paperback brings together an even wider range of leading philosophers and social scientists to probe the political controversy surrounding multiculturalism. Charles Taylor's initial inquiry,...

The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere represents a rare opportunity to experience a diverse group of preeminent philosophers confronting one pervasive contemporary concern: what role does-or should-religion play in our public lives? Reflecting on her recent work concerning state violence in Israel-Palestine,...

Is your heart on fire for God? Passionate Conviction brings together the most popular and heart-stirring presentations in defense of Christianity from the annual fall conference on apologetics held in association with the Evangelical Philosophical Society, the C. S. Lewis Institute, and the...

This is Habermas's long awaited work on law, democracy and the modern constitutional state in which he develops his own account of the nature of law and democracy.

Two countervailing trends mark the intellectual tenor of our age – the spread of naturalistic worldviews and religious orthodoxies. Advances in biogenetics, brain research, and robotics are clearing the way for the penetration of an objective scientific self-understanding of persons into everyday...

El 19 de enero de 2004, en la Academia Católica de Baviera en Munich, tuvo lugar un hecho insólito en el mundo actual: uno de los más importantes filósofos vivos, Jürgen Habermas, debatía en público con uno de los principales representantes de la Iglesia Católica, el entonces cardenal Joseph...

L’atto di accusa del più grande pensatore politico vivente contro gli errori dell’America, l’incapacità dell’Europa, il naufragio del diritto internazionale. Una interessante silloge di interventi del filosofo europeo contemporaneo più influente e carismatico, forse l’ultimo esponente...

Questo libro raccoglie due conversazioni di Enrico Filippini con Jürgen Habermas pubblicate rispettivamente sull’«Espresso» nel 1979 e su «Repubblica» nel 1986. Non semplici interviste, ma un lungo dialogo interrotto e poi ripreso, narrato con sensibilità letteraria e tessuto di silenzi, provocazioni,...