Understanding Habermas: Communicating Action and Deliberative Democracy

Brand: Bloomsbury Academic

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UPC:
9780826471796
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
6/1/2004
Release Date:
6/1/2004
Author:
Erik Oddvar Eriksen;Jarle Weigard
Language:
english
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This book provides an illuminating and comprehensive overview of Habermas' work. It explores the way in which his theories have developed and changed in the last twenty years, leading to an exposition of his more complex ideas and theories. His theory of communicative action is analysed, as are key themes, such as rights, public deliberation, law and democracy, and how they inter-relate. The question of how institutions can be designed to facilitate problem solving and conflict-resolution in a communicative manner is also discussed, and so is Habermas' contribution to the theory of international relations.