From Communicative Action to the Face of the Other: Levinas and Habermas on Language, Obligation, and Community

by Steve Hendley

Although the continental philosophers JYrgen Habermas and Emmanuel Levinas are both inescapably important to an array of debates in contemporary moral theory, they are rarely assessed in relation to each other. Not only are their basic agendas different-whereas Habermas's discourse ethics are framed within a general concern for democratic political theory, Levinas's work is largely indifferent, if not hostile, to political concerns-but their philosophical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739101412
• ISBN13: 9780739101414
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"