Habermas and Modernity

by Richard J. Bernstein

Book Overview

Jurgen Habermas is one of the leading and one of the mostchallenging social theorists of our time. During the past severaldecades he has been developing a systematic critical analysis ofmodernity - its historical origins, pathologies and futureprospects. He is a thinker who has been uncannily attuned to thebasic moods and vital concerns of contemporary culture. Hestubbornly resists those who claim that Western rationality isexhausted, that the Enlightenment...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745600670
• ISBN13: 9780745600673
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"