Habermas ante el siglo XXI

The question about the normative foundation of criticism, that is, about the type of criteria or standards that underlie diagnoses of pathologies in society, constitutes one of the most fascinating topics of study in contemporary practical philosophy. One of the traditions of thought that has managed to bring together in a most brilliant way the various branches of practical philosophy - fundamentally, social, political, moral and legal philosophy - has been the Critical Theory of Society of the Frankfurt School. Although, within this tradition, the problem of normative criteria was always present, the truth is that it has only been since the emergence of Jürgen Habermas, who constitutes not only the main representative of his second generation, but probably also the philosopher and the most influential society theorist of the last half century, when this question has been radically and systematically addressed. The aim of this book is to offer a comprehensive study of the relationship between criticism and normativity within Habermas's thought. With such a study, which can only be undertaken on the basis of a reconstruction of the previous stages of Critical Theory, it is not only intended to show the internal coherence of Habermasian thought and its commitment, sometimes disputed, to Critical Theory, but also to analyze the projection of the theory of communicative action among some of the most promising contemporary proposals of social, political and moral philosophy.