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Jürgen Habermas. 1.

Jürgen Habermas

The Early Development Of Habermas's Interest In The Public Sphere And Reason Born outside Düsseldorf in 1929, Habermas came of age in postwar Germany. The Nuremberg Trials were a key formative moment that brought home to him the depth of Germany's moral and political failure under National Socialism. This experience was later reinforced when, as a graduate student interested in Heidegger's existentialism, he read the latter's reissued Introduction to Metaphysics, in which Heidegger had retained (or more accurately, reintroduced) an allusion to the “inner truth and greatness” of National Socialism (Heidegger 1959, 199).

When Habermas (1953) publicly called for an explanation from Heidegger, the latter's silence confirmed Habermas's conviction that the German philosophical tradition had failed in its moment of reckoning, providing intellectuals with the resources neither to understand nor to criticize National Socialism. 2. 3. Jürgen Habermas - The Crisis of the European Union. Description Translated by Ciaran Cronin.

Jürgen Habermas - The Crisis of the European Union

In the midst of the current crisis that is threatening to derail the historical project of European unification, Jürgen Habermas has been one of the most perceptive critics of the ineffectual and evasive responses to the global financial crisis, especially by the German political class. This extended essay on the constitution for Europe represents Habermas’s constructive engagement with the European project at a time when the crisis of the eurozone is threatening the very existence of the European Union. There is a growing realization that the European treaty needs to be revised in order to deal with the structural defects of monetary union, but a clear perspective for the future is missing.

Now that the question of Europe and its future is once again at the centre of public debate, this important intervention by one of the greatest thinkers of our time will be of interest to a wide readership. Hardcover Status Available Edition First Edition. Frankfurt School: The Present Situation of Social Philosophy and the Tasks of an Institute for Social Research 1931. Max Horkheimer 1931 The Present Situation of Social Philosophy and the Tasks of an Institute for Social Research Written: in German in 1931;Source: Between Philosophy and Social Science. Selected Early Writings Max Horkheimer, MIT Press 1993, 425pp; pp. 1-14 reproduced here;Translated: by John Torpey;Transcribed: by Andy Blunden 2006;Proofed: and corrected by Chris, 2009.

Although social philosophy may be at the center of the broader interest in philosophy, its status is no better than that of most contemporary philosophical or fundamental intellectual efforts. No substantive conceptual configuration of social philosophy could assert a claim to general validity. Understood in this way, social philosophy grew into a decisive philosophical task in the course of the development of classical German idealism.

The idealist tradition linked with Kant elaborated the meshing of autonomous reason and empirical individuals. Let me consider this Hegelian perspective for a moment longer. Adorno. 1.

Adorno

Biographical Sketch Born on September 11, 1903 as Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund, Adorno lived in Frankfurt am Main for the first three decades of his life and the last two (Müller-Doohm 2005, Claussen 2008). He was the only son of a wealthy German wine merchant of assimilated Jewish background and an accomplished musician of Corsican Catholic descent. Adorno studied philosophy with the neo-Kantian Hans Cornelius and music composition with Alban Berg. He completed his Habilitationsschrift on Kierkegaard's aesthetics in 1931, under the supervision of the Christian socialist Paul Tillich. Adorno left Germany in the spring of 1934. Conflict and consolidation marked the last decade of Adorno's life. 2.

Long before “postmodernism” became fashionable, Adorno and Horkheimer wrote one of the most searching critiques of modernity to have emerged among progressive European intellectuals. Contrary to some interpretations, Horkheimer and Adorno do not reject the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. 3. Economics, Philosophy of. First published Fri Sep 12, 2003; substantive revision Tue Dec 18, 2012 “Philosophy of Economics” consists of inquiries concerning (a) rational choice, (b) the appraisal of economic outcomes, institutions and processes, and (c) the ontology of economic phenomena and the possibilities of acquiring knowledge of them.

Economics, Philosophy of

Although these inquiries overlap in many ways, it is useful to divide philosophy of economics in this way into three subject matters which can be regarded respectively as branches of action theory, ethics (or normative social and political philosophy), and philosophy of science. Economic theories of rationality, welfare, and social choice defend substantive philosophical theses often informed by relevant philosophical literature and of evident interest to those interested in action theory, philosophical psychology, and social and political philosophy. 1.

Introduction: What is Economics?