Knowledge & Human Interests - Softcover

Habermas, Juergen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807015415 ISBN 13: 9780807015414

Publisher: Beacon Press, 1972

Synopsis

"For those concerned with the relationships between thought and action, Knowledge and Human Interests will quickly be recognized as a brilliant book --and a bold outline for a new social theory." -Times Literary Supplement

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Habermas describes Knowledge and Human Interests as an attempt to reconstruct the prehistory of modern positivism with the intention of analysing the connections between knowledge and human interests. Convinced of the increasing historical and social importance of the natural and behavioural sciences, Habermas makes clear how crucial it is to understand the central meanings and justifications of these sciences. He argues that for too long the relationship between philosophy and science has been distorted.

In this extraordinarily wide-ranging book, Habermas examines the principal positions of modern philosophy - Kantianism, Marxism, positivism, pragmatism, hermeneutics, the philosophy of science, linguistic philosophy and phenomenology - to lay bare the structure of the processes of enquiry that determine the meaning and the validity of all our statements which claim objectivity.

This edition contains a postscript written by Habermas for the second German edition of Knowledge and Human Interests.

About the Author:

Jürgen Habermas, a professor of philosophy at the University of Frankfurt, is the leading representative of the Frankfurt School tradition of social thought.

About this edition

• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Publication date: 1972
• ISBN 10: 0807015415
• ISBN 13: 9780807015414
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 368