Elgar Companion to Jürgen Habermas

Edited by William Outhwaite, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Newcastle University and Larry Ray, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Kent, UK

‘This timely Companion spans Habermas’ oeuvre from his dissertation to his monumental Also a History of Philosophy, situating him relative to his predecessors from Marx to earlier Frankfurt School theorists and successors like Axel Honneth and Iris Young. The resulting sophisticated portrait of Habermas as philosopher-sociologist underscores his continuing relevance to contemporary philosophy and social theory.’

• Contents1 Introduction to The Elgar Companion to Jürgen Habermas 1William Outhwaite and Larry Ray2 Sociology and philosophy in the work of Jürgen Habermas 10Stefan Müller-Doohm3 Habermas: theory and diagnoses of the times 23Marcos Nobre4 Is Habermas a critical theorist? Continuities and discontinuitiesin the Frankfurt School 40Fabian Freyenhagen5 Schelling in the work of Jürgen Habermas: from the philosophyof history to the historicity of communicative action 60Dorothee Zucca6 The genesis of Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit 76Roman Yos7 Knowledge and human interests: epistemology as social theory? 91Simon Susen8 Continuities and discontinuities in Habermas’ relation tohistorical materialism 141William Outhwaite9 From Kant to Hegel but not back: the intersubjective foundationsof Habermas’s concept of the lifeworld 151Dorothee Zucca10 Theory of law and democracy 160Regina Kreide11 Revolutionary transcendence at the core of social integration 173Hauke Brunkhorst12 Habermas and the European Union: contributions to a discoursetheory of supranational democracy 195Markus Patberg13 The relation of reason and religion in late Habermas 210Hans-Herbert Kögler14 Voices in the public sphere: Habermas, feminism, and the pursuitof recognition 243Marina Calloni15 Solidarity and critical reason 269Isabelle Aubert16 Habermas reception worldwide 289William Outhwaite