Richard J. Bernstein is T. Wistar Brown, Professor of Philosophy at Haverford College, Pennsylvania. His previous publications include Praxis and Action (1971), The Restructuring of Social and Political Theory (1976) and Beyond Objectivism and Relativism (1983). He was also editor at Praxis International from 1980 - 1984.

• Introduction. Part I:.1. Reason, Utopia and the Dialectic of Enlightenment: Albrecht Wellmer.2. Psychic Thermidor and the Rebirth of Rebellious Subjectivity: Jurgen Habermas.3. Neoconservative Culture Criticism in the United States and West Germany: An Intellectual Movement in Two Political Cultres: Jurgen Habermas.4. Reason Without Revolution? Habermas's Theorie des Kommunikativen Handelns: Antony Giddens. Part II: Symposium..1. Habermas and Modernism: Martin Jay.2. reason and Happiness: Some Psychoanalytic Themes in Critical Theory: Joel Whitebook.3. Habermas and Lyotard on Postmodernity: Ricard Rorty.4. Reflections on Rationalization in the Theory of Communicative Action: Thomas McCarthy.5. Questions and Counterquestions: Jurgen Habermas.Notes.Bibliographical Note.Index.

'This volume, culminating in Habermas's spirited response to his critics, will be required reading for anyone concerned with the complex dispute currently raging between `modernism' and `post-modernism' (or between liberalism and post-liberalism). Bernstein's introduction is easily the most lucid essay-length discussion of this problem and of Habermas's opus available today.' Fred R. Dallamayr

Richard J. Bernstein is T. Wistar Brown, Professor of Philosophy at Haverford College, Pennsylvania. His previous publications include Praxis and Action (1971), The Restructuring of Social and Political Theory (1976) and Beyond Objectivism and Relativism (1983). He was also editor at Praxis International from 1980 - 1984.

• Introduction. Part I:.1. Reason, Utopia and the Dialectic of Enlightenment: Albrecht Wellmer.2. Psychic Thermidor and the Rebirth of Rebellious Subjectivity: Jurgen Habermas.3. Neoconservative Culture Criticism in the United States and West Germany: An Intellectual Movement in Two Political Cultres: Jurgen Habermas.4. Reason Without Revolution? Habermas's Theorie des Kommunikativen Handelns: Antony Giddens. Part II: Symposium..1. Habermas and Modernism: Martin Jay.2. reason and Happiness: Some Psychoanalytic Themes in Critical Theory: Joel Whitebook.3. Habermas and Lyotard on Postmodernity: Ricard Rorty.4. Reflections on Rationalization in the Theory of Communicative Action: Thomas McCarthy.5. Questions and Counterquestions: Jurgen Habermas.Notes.Bibliographical Note.Index.

'This volume, culminating in Habermas's spirited response to his critics, will be required reading for anyone concerned with the complex dispute currently raging between `modernism' and `post-modernism' (or between liberalism and post-liberalism). Bernstein's introduction is easily the most lucid essay-length discussion of this problem and of Habermas's opus available today.' Fred R. Dallamayr

Richard J. Bernstein is T. Wistar Brown, Professor of Philosophy at Haverford College, Pennsylvania. His previous publications include Praxis and Action (1971), The Restructuring of Social and Political Theory (1976) and Beyond Objectivism and Relativism (1983). He was also editor at Praxis International from 1980 - 1984.

• Introduction. Part I:.1. Reason, Utopia and the Dialectic of Enlightenment: Albrecht Wellmer.2. Psychic Thermidor and the Rebirth of Rebellious Subjectivity: Jurgen Habermas.3. Neoconservative Culture Criticism in the United States and West Germany: An Intellectual Movement in Two Political Cultres: Jurgen Habermas.4. Reason Without Revolution? Habermas's Theorie des Kommunikativen Handelns: Antony Giddens. Part II: Symposium..1. Habermas and Modernism: Martin Jay.2. reason and Happiness: Some Psychoanalytic Themes in Critical Theory: Joel Whitebook.3. Habermas and Lyotard on Postmodernity: Ricard Rorty.4. Reflections on Rationalization in the Theory of Communicative Action: Thomas McCarthy.5. Questions and Counterquestions: Jurgen Habermas.Notes.Bibliographical Note.Index.

'This volume, culminating in Habermas's spirited response to his critics, will be required reading for anyone concerned with the complex dispute currently raging between `modernism' and `post-modernism' (or between liberalism and post-liberalism). Bernstein's introduction is easily the most lucid essay-length discussion of this problem and of Habermas's opus available today.' Fred R. Dallamayr