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020			_a9780511763083 (ebook)
020			_z9780521488037 (hardback)
020			_z9780521738316 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP _dBD-SySUS.
050	0	0	_aB3258.H324 _bS66 2010
082	0	0	_a193 B _222
100	1		_aSpecter, Matthew G., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aHabermas : _bAn Intellectual Biography / _cMatthew G. Specter.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2010.
300			_a1 online resource (278 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aThis book follows postwar Germany's leading philosopher and social thinker, Jürgen Habermas, through four decades of political and constitutional struggle over the shape of liberal democracy in Germany. Habermas's most influential theories - of the public sphere, communicative action, and modernity - were decisively shaped by major West German political events: the failure to de-Nazify the judiciary, the rise of a powerful Constitutional Court, student rebellions in the late 1960s, the changing fortunes of the Social Democratic Party, NATO's decision to station nuclear weapons, and the unexpected collapse of East Germany. In turn, Habermas's writings on state, law, and constitution played a critical role in reorienting German political thought and culture to a progressive liberal-democratic model. Matthew Specter uniquely illuminates the interrelationship between the thinker and his culture.
650		0	_aHabermas, Jürgen
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521488037
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511763083
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c38434 _d38434