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
Analysis
Germany
Philosophy
Sociology
German philosophy Habermas, Jürgen
Social sciences Theories of Habermas, Jürgen
Notes
Includes index
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-204) and index