The Path to Discourse Democracy: A Dialogue with Habermas: A Dialogue with Contemporary Academic Masters

Author: Wang Xingfu
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Publish Date: 2002-10-01
Features: This book has the following characteristics:
1. Selecting academic masters to engage with from the perspective of communication studies.
2. Emphasizing direct dialogue with Western academic masters.
3. Making valuable attempts in the comparative study of Chinese and Western cultures.
4. Deepening the awareness of problem-solving.
The series Dialogue with Contemporary Masters is not a product of superficial learning or fleeting inspiration, but rather the result of deep reflection and thoughtful effort by middle-aged and young scholars dedicated to revitalizing academic endeavors. Every editor, author, planner, and writer involved in this series will discover the following features:
1. Selecting academic masters to engage with from the perspective of communication studies.
2. Emphasizing direct dialogue with Western academic masters.
3. Making valuable attempts in the comparative study of Chinese and Western cultures.
4. Deepening the awareness of problem-solving.
In The Path to Discourse Democracy—Dialogue with Habermas, the interlocutor, Habermas, is hailed as the "most powerful philosopher in German thought." He himself harbors the ideal of constructing political philosophy for the "post-revolutionary" era. He has engaged with the Frankfurt School, sought the historical traces of democracy, and built theories of communicative action and discourse democracy. He acknowledges the normative principles of Western democratic constitutional states while critiquing the distortions and deviations of contemporary society. He advocates inheriting the radical tradition of the bourgeoisie while also being concerned with the construction of global democratic governance systems. He not only envisions grand theoretical frameworks but also provides us with a research sample: through the branches and leaves of his theoretical tree, one can see the contemporary state of democratic concepts in the Western society where it grows.