From his early work on student politics, the public sphere, and the development of Marxist theory to his current work on communicative action, ethics, and law, Habermas has continuously engaged critics of contemporary philosophy and social theory. In The Philosophy of Habermas Andrew Edgar examines Habermas's key texts, assesses the continuities and discontinuities in his thought, in terms of both subject matter and methodology, and identifies unresolved challenges remaining from Habermas's earlier projects. Edgar further analyses Habermas's early reshaping of Marxist theory and practice, characterization of critical theory, conception of universal pragmatics, theories of communicative action and discourse ethics, accounts of the rationalization and colonisation of the lifeworld, and defence of the project of modernity. He engages with Habermas's critics throughout, contrasting Habermas's theories with the ideas of contemporaries such as Adorno, Gadamer, Foucault, Rawls, Luhmann, and Rorty. | The Philosophy of Habermas by Andrew Edgar, Paperback | Indigo Chapters