Discourse and Democracy: Essays on Habermas's Between Facts and Norms (Social Polit Thought

by Rene Von Schomberg (Editor)

René von Schomberg is a Research Fellow at the European Commission. He is the editor of Science, Politics, and Scientific Uncertainty and Decision Making and the coeditor, with Peter Wheale and Peter Glasner, of The Social Management of Genetic Engineering . Kenneth Baynes is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is the author of The Normative Grounds of Social Kant, Rawls, and Habermas , also published by SUNY Press, and the coeditor, with James Bohman and Thomas McCarthy, of After End or Transformation?

277 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2002

Reviews

[Sergei Moska · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a sometimes uneven collection of essays dealing with Habermas' latest opus, Between Facts and Norms. Readers should be warned that the writing gets turgid at places - many Habermas scholars have German, not English, as their mother tongue - and that some of the essays deal with minutiae that many not be of general interest.

That said, I recommend the book. It is one of the few sources I know that deal with Habermas' later work explicitly. The problem with reading some generic essay "about Habermas" is that it usually talking about Theory of Communicative Action Habermas. That's all well and good, but Habermas' thought gets substantially revised in BFaN. Worth checking out, but those who are not familiar with BFaN will not come away from this collection with an adequate understanding of that central text.