The Habermas Handbook
ISBN: 9780231535885
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Habermas Jèurgen; Philosophy; Sociology -- Philosophy;

Jürgen Habermas is one of the most influential philosophers of our time. The Habermas Handbook offers a comprehensive overview and an in-depth analysis of Habermas's work. Habermas scholars elucidate his thought, providing essential insight into his key concepts and his influence across politics, law, the social sciences, and public life.


Hauke Brunkhorst is senior professor of sociology at the European University-Flensburg. His books include Adorno and Critical Theory (1999); Solidarity: From Civic Friendship to a Global Legal Community (2005); and Critical Theory of Legal Revolutions: Evolutionary Perspectives (2014).

Regina Kreide is professor of political theory and the history of ideas at the Justus Liebig University of Giessen. She is the coauthor of Transformation of Democracy: Crisis, Protest, and Legitimation (2015) and The Power Dynamics of Securitization (2017).

Cristina Lafont is professor of philosophy at Northwestern University. She is the author of The Linguistic Turn in Hermeneutic Philosophy (1999); Heidegger, Language, and World-Disclosure (2000); and Global Governance and Human Rights (2012) and coeditor of Critical Theory in Critical Times: Transforming the Global Political and Economic Order (Columbia, 2017).
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