Book Reviews : THE PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE OF MODERNITY. Jürgen Habermas. Cambridge, Polity Press, 1987. 430 pp. $59.95 (cloth). HABERMAS AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF CRITICAL THEORY. Rick Roderick. Macmillan (Theoretical Traditions in the Social Sciences), 1986. 194 pp

1992 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-260
Author(s):  
Stephen Crook
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
Philosophical Discourse ◽  
Jurgen Habermas ◽  
The Social

Defending Reason

Beyond Reason ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 52-84
Author(s):  
Sanjay Seth
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
John Rawls ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
Culturally Specific ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Jurgen Habermas ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Modern Knowledge ◽  
Way Of Knowing

This chapter provides a postcolonial critique of those defenders of a universal and singular Reason who, forced to acknowledge that modern knowledge has been shaped by its historical and cultural contexts, nonetheless seek to provide reasons why the presuppositions undergirding the social sciences have a claim to transhistorical and transcultural validity. Engaging in detail with the defenses of Reason mounted by Jürgen Habermas, Karl-Otto Apel, and John Rawls, it argues that these are not persuasive because they presuppose that which they seek to validate or “ground.” It concludes that modern knowledge is a historically and culturally specific way of knowing and being in the world, that there are good reasons to doubt that it transcends these particularities, and that while modern Western knowledge has become global, that does not validate the claim that it is universal.

scholarly journals Understanding the geographies of religion and secularity: on the potentials of a broader exchange between geography and the (post-) secularity debate

2018 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 285-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georg Glasze ◽  
Thomas M. Schmitt
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Cultural Geography ◽  
Second Step ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
Peter Berger ◽  
Jurgen Habermas ◽  
The Social ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Context Dependent

Abstract. For a long time, the mainstream of social and cultural geography seems to have implicitly accepted that religion is becoming obsolete and is of little social significance. However, since the 1990s, religion has aroused new interest in the social sciences in general, and to some extent also in social and cultural geography. Against this backdrop, a controversial discussion has started in geography on the relevance of theories of secularisation and the notion of post-secularity, as well as on possible contributions to these debates. The paper introduces the interdisciplinary debate on revisions of theories of secularisation and the promotion of post-secular perspectives, referring, among others, to Jürgen Habermas, Peter Berger, José Casanova, and Talal Asad. In a second step, we argue that an understanding of post-secularity that focuses on the contingency and context-dependent delimitation of the secular and the religious promises to be fruitful for social and cultural geography and can help us to understand the geographies of religion and secularity.

scholarly journals A RECEPÇÃO COMO "PRAGMÁTICA ARGUMENTATIVA" UMA VISITA AO CONCEITO PELO OLHAR HABERMASIANO

2010 ◽  
Vol 37 (103) ◽  
pp. 337
Author(s):  
Sérgio Ricardo Coutinho
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Communicative Action ◽  
Local Churches ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
Jurgen Habermas ◽  
The Social ◽  
Theoretical Proposal ◽  
The Church ◽  
Theological Concept

O artigo tem por objetivo verificar a viabilidade e aplicabilidade do conceito teológico de recepção na realidade concreta da vida social e eclesial, ou seja, no mundo da vida da Igreja. O texto faz uma releitura do conceito, ampliando-o e trazendo-o para o campo das Ciências Sociais, por meio da proposta teórica de Jürgen Habermas na Teoria da Ação Comunicativa. Para isso, verificaremos tal processo de recepção nas Igrejas locais do Estado do Maranhão.ABSTRACT: The purpose of the present article is to verify the viability and applicability of the theological concept of reception in the reality of the social and eclesial life, in other words, in the lifeworld of the Church. The text revisits the concept, extending it and applying it to the field of Social Sciences, through the theoretical proposal of Jürgen Habermas in his Theory of Communicative Action. We will thus verify the process of reception in the local Churches of the State of Maranhão (Brazil).

The Politics of Global Health Inequalities

2019 ◽  
pp. 58-84
Author(s):  
Yusra Ribhi Shawar ◽  
Jennifer Prah Ruger
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Health Inequalities ◽  
Health Inequality ◽  
The Political ◽  
State Of Health ◽  
Political Determinants ◽  
The Social

Careful investigations of the political determinants of health that include the role of power in health inequalities—systematic differences in health achievements among different population groups—are increasing but remain inadequate. Historically, much of the research examining health inequalities has been influenced by biomedical perspectives and focused, as such, on ‘downstream’ factors. More recently, there has been greater recognition of more ‘distal’ and ‘upstream’ drivers of health inequalities, including the impacts of power as expressed by actors, as well as embedded in societal structures, institutions, and processes. The goal of this chapter is to examine how power has been conceptualised and analysed to date in relation to health inequalities. After reviewing the state of health inequality scholarship and the emerging interest in studying power in global health, the chapter presents varied conceptualisations of power and how they are used in the literature to understand health inequalities. The chapter highlights the particular disciplinary influences in studying power across the social sciences, including anthropology, political science, and sociology, as well as cross-cutting perspectives such as critical theory and health capability. It concludes by highlighting strengths and limitations of the existing research in this area and discussing power conceptualisations and frameworks that so far have been underused in health inequalities research. This includes potential areas for future inquiry and approaches that may expand the study of as well as action on addressing health inequality.

scholarly journals Pragmática transcendental y filosofía social: Karl Otto Apel, Jürgen Habermas y la nueva fundamentación de la Teoría Crítica

Daímon ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 155-170
Author(s):  
César Ortega Esquembre
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Communicative Action ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
Linguistic Turn ◽  
Jurgen Habermas ◽  
Theory Of Communicative Action ◽  
Normative Foundation

El objetivo de este artículo es defender que la pragmática transcendental ofrece la fundamentación normativa de la teoría crítica como teoría de la acción comunicativa. Para ello se expondrá en primer lugar el problema de la normatividad en la Teoría Crítica de la sociedad. Tras describir la forma que adquiere esta teoría tras el giro lingüístico operado por Jürgen Habermas, se reconstruirán en tercer lugar los elementos fundamentales de la pragmática transcendental apeliana y habermasiana. En cuarto y último lugar se mostrará que este modelo constituye la fundamentación normativa de la nueva teoría crítica. The aim of this paper is to argue that transcendental pragmatics constitutes the normative foundation of critical theory, understood as theory of communicative action. To that end, the issue of normativity within Critical Theory discussions is first exposed. After describing the form this theory takes from the linguistic turn carried out by Jürgen Habermas, key elements of Karl Otto Apel´s and Jürgen Habermas´ transcendental pragmatics are thirdly reconstructed. Fourth paragraph shows that this model operates as the normative foundation of the new critical theory.

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