Habermas, A Biography by Müller-Doohm, Stefan -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Preface Acknowledgements Illustration Acknowledgements Prologue: The Other among his Peers PART I CATASTROPHE AND EMANCIPATION

1 Disaster Years as Normality: Childhood and Youth in Gummersbach

Born in 1929 Turning point: 1945 Notes

2 At University in Göttingen, Zurich and Bonn

Doctorate on the philosophy of Schelling Speaking out as a freelance journalist The beginnings of a career as a public intellectual Notes

PART II POLITICS AND CRITIQUE

3 Education intellectuelle in Café Marx

Mutual trust between Habermas and the Adornos Horkheimer’s animosity towards the ‘dialectical Mr H.’ The ‘most promising intellectual’ Notes

4 Under the Aegis of Conflicting Personalities: Abendroth and Gadamer

A man of the democratic left Positions in the dispute over the right form of critique and good politics Notes

5 Back in Frankfurt: Torn between Academic Work and Political Practice

In search of an epistemological foundation for critique Thinking with the protest movement against the protest movement In the line of fire from his own side A new track in philosophical thought Notes

6 In the Ivory Tower of Social Scientific Research

Between academic management and research A theory about the impossibility of not learning The minefield of political interpretations in the ‘German autumn’ Resignation Notes

PART III SCIENCE AND COMMITMENT

7 Genius Loci: In Frankfurt for the Third Time

The magnum opus The theory of action System and lifeworld Everyday life in Frankfurt Notes

8 New Projects

Under the spell of the philosophy of law Morality and law Notes

9 Battles over the Politics of Ideas

Opinion leader of the New Left? The historians’ debate Habermas as a sceptic towards reunification Notes

10 Against Germanomania and Nationalism

Habermas’s ambiguous attitude towards military interventions The asylum debate A memorial to the murdered Jews Notes

PART IV COSMOPOLITAN SOCIETY AND JUSTICE

11 Critique as a Vocation: The Transition into the Third Millennium

A plea for freedom of the will and the inviolability of the person The philosopher as globetrotter Many honours and an affair Notes

12 The Taming of Capitalism and the Democratization of Europe

Democratic politics – a counterbalance to capitalism? European integration On the way to a democratically constituted world order Notes

13 Philosophy in the Age of Postmetaphysical Modernity

14 Books at an Exhibition

Consciousness-raising and rescuing critique Notes

Epilogue: The Inner Compass

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Genealogy Chronology List of Habermas’s Lectures and Seminars Visiting Professorships List of Archives Bibliography of Works by Jürgen Habermas Secondary Literature Index End User License Agreement