Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Barbara Fultner 2. Influences and Impact, Max Pensky Part I The Linguistic Turn: Communicative Rationality 3. Postmetaphysical Thinking, Melissa Yates 4. Communicative Action and Formal Pragmatics, Barbara Fultner 5. Lifeworld and System, Joseph Heath 6. Autonomy, Joel Anderson Part II Discourse Ethics 7. Morality, William Rehg 8. Ethics, Johanna Meehan Part III Political Theory: Interventions in the Public Sphere 9. Deliberative Democracy, Kevin Olson 10. Civil Society, Keith Haysom 11. Discourse Theory of Law, Christopher Zurn Part IV Political Discourse 12. Cosmopolitan Democracy, Ciarin Cronin 13. Postsecularism, Eduardo Mendieta Chronology of Life and Work

About the Author

Barbara Fultner is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Denison University, and translator of Jurgen Habermas' Truth and Justification.

Reviews

"Barbara Fultner has brought together many of today's leading Habermas scholars to provide an up to date, critical and above all clear introduction to key elements in Habermas's social philosophy." - Andrew Edgar, Cardiff University "This is a volume I would recommend to anyone teaching or studying Habermas. The high quality of the contributors and their contributions make a very difficult thinker more accessible with a series of overviews that range broadly across his thought." - Thomas McCarthy, Northwestern University