Introduction: Intervention in the public sphere -- Methodology in the social sciences: the positivist debate -- On ideology and interpretation: the debate with hans-georg Gadamer -- Democracy and the student movement: the debate with the left -- Systems and society: the debate with Niklas Luhmann -- Modernity and postmodernity: the debate with Jean-Francois Lyotard -- National socialism and the Holocaust: the debate with the historians
Summary
Annotation Examines the theoretical and practical dimensions of Habermas's debates with contemporary philosophy and the social sciences and the politically informed unity of his theory and practice
