Notes on Contributors

Preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction

Part I Traditions

Does Hegel's Critique of Kant's Moral Theory Apply to Discourse Ethics?

Gordon Finlayson

Habermas, Marxism and Social Theory: The Case for Pluralism in Critical Social Science

James Bohman

Communicative Paradigms and the Question of Subjectivity: Habermas, Mead and Lacan

Peter Dews

Heidegger's Challenge and the Future of Critical Theory

Nikolas Kompridis

Part II Contexts

Between Radicalism and Resignation: Democratic Theory in Habermas's Between Facts and Norms

William E. Scheuerman

Habermas, Feminism and the Question of Autonomy

Maeve Cooke

Jurgen Habermas and the Antinomies of the Intellectual

Max Pensky

Part III Contemporaries

Society and History: A Critique of Critical Theory

Michael Theunissen

Openly Strategic Uses of Language: A Transcendental-Pragmatic Perspective (A second attempt to think with Habermas against Habermas)

Karl-Otto Apel

What is Metaphysics -- What is Modernity? Twelve Theses against Jurgen Habermas

Dieter Henrich

The Social Dynamics of Disrespect: Situating Critical Theory Today

Axel Honneth

Select Bibliography

Index