Truth and justification

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In this significant new work, Jürgen Habermas revisits fundamental philosophical questions, shifting focus from morality and law to truth, objectivity, and reality, themes central to his earlier classic. He explores how the norms that shape our linguistically structured world align with the evolving socio-cultural forms of life. Habermas grapples with reconciling the notion of an independent reality with the understanding that our access to it is mediated by language, rendering 'bare' reality unattainable. In his previous work, he addressed these issues through weak naturalism and transcendental-pragmatic realism. However, he has since developed a formal pragmatic theory grounded in speech acts and language use. This volume reexamines philosophical inquiries of truth, objectivity, and reality through the lens of his pragmatic theory. The concluding section delves into the limitations of philosophy and reevaluates the relationship between theory and practice from a perspective that can be termed 'post-Marxist.' This essential reading is now available in paperback and is crucial for students and scholars in philosophy, social theory, and the humanities and social sciences.