Showing papers by "Anthony Giddens published in 1977"

Habermas's Social and Political TheoryToward a Rational Society: Student Protest, Science, and Politics.Jürgen Habermas , Jeremy J. ShapiroKnowledge and Human Interests.Jürgen Habermas , Jeremy J. ShapiroTheory and Practice.Jürgen Habermas , John ViertelLegitimation Crisis.Jürgen Habermas , Thomas McCarthy

Abstract: Jiirgen Habermas is the most distinguished, and by that token also the most controversial, social theorist and political philosopher writing in German today. In the English-speaking world, to adopt a well-worn phrase, Habermas's works are well known, but they are not yet known well. In some part this is because of vagaries of translation. Four of Habermas's major writings have been translated into English under the titles of Toward a Rational Society,' Knowledge and Human Interests,2 Theory and Practice,3 and Legitimation Crisis. These, however, represent only part of a vast output, and they have not been published in a chronology which conforms directly to the development of Habermas's ideas. The original version of Theorie und Praxis, for example, was published in 1962, some years before Erkenntnis und Interesse (Knowledge and Human Interests), but these have appeared in reverse order in English. A more important