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Textos e Contextos

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Jürgen Habermas discorre, nesta obra escrita nos anos 1990, sobre a produção de oito teóricos que o influenciaram de alguma maneira: Charles S. Peirce, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Max Horkheimer, Georg Simmel, Alexander Mitscherlich e Alfred Schmidt. Em especial, o autor procura tecer os vínculos da produção desses pensadores com os seus contextos históricos. O que o filósofo alemão discute é o quanto um determinado conteúdo argumentativo é capaz de transcender o tempo no qual surgiu e, portanto, aspirar à universalidade. Habermas convida o leitor a questionar se todos os pensadores ficam marcados pelos seus respectivos contextos históricos e a refletir sobre o que significa ser marcado de forma especial. Além dos ensaios sobre os oito teóricos, a obra apresenta dois outros artigos, que, nas palavras de Habermas, “tematizam os próprios contextos”: “A sociologia na República de Weimar” e “Sobre o desenvolvimento das ciências sociais e das ciências humanas na República Federal da Alemanha”.

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Published January 1, 2015

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Jürgen Habermas

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Jürgen Habermas is a German sociologist and philosopher in the tradition of critical theory and American pragmatism. He is perhaps best known for his work on the concept of the public sphere, the topic of his first book entitled The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. His work focuses on the foundations of social theory and epistemology, the analysis of advanced capitalistic societies and democracy, the rule of law in a critical social-evolutionary context, and contemporary politics—particularly German politics. Habermas's theoretical system is devoted to revealing the possibility of reason, emancipation, and rational-critical communication latent in modern institutions and in the human capacity to deliberate and pursue rational interests.

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