Rationality and religion in habermas' recent work: Some remarks on the relation between critical theory and the phenomenology of religion

Philosophy & Social Criticism

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1986, Pages 221-243

  Rothberg, Donald Jay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

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EID: 84972605877     PISSN: 01914537     EISSN: 1461734x     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/019145378601100302     Document Type: Article

References (72)

1. Jürgen Habermas, Theory des kommunikativen Handelns (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1981), 2 vols.
2. Thomas McCarthy as The Theory of Communicative Action: Volume 1: Reason and the Rationalization of Society (Boston: Beacon Press, 1984).
3. Ian Barbour, Myths, Models and Paradigms: A Comparative Study in Science and Religion (New York: Harper and Row, 1974).
4. Daniel Bell, ‘The Return of the Sacred,’ in The Winding Passage (Cambridge, Ma.: Abt Books, 1980), pp. 324–354
5. Harvey Cox, Religion in the Secular City: Toward a Postmodern Theology (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984)
6. Fran Schumer, ‘A Return to Religion,’ New York Times Magazine (April 15, 1984): 90 ff.
7. David Rasmussen, ‘Communicative Action and Philosophy: Reflections on Habermas' Theory des kommunikativen Handelns,’ Philosophy and Social Criticism 9 (Spring 1980): 3–28
8. Thomas McCarthy, “Rationality and Relativism: Habermas' ‘Overcomig’ of Hermeneutics,” in John B. Thompson and David Held (eds.), Habermas: Critical Debates (Cambridge, Ma.: MIT Press, 1982), pp. 57–78.
9. The Science of the Mind (Cambridge, Ma: MIT Press, 1984), pp. 119–173.
10. Richard Bernstein gives an excellent overview of such an emerging theory of rationality in his Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: Science, Hermeneutics, and Praxis (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983).
11. TCA, pp. 58 ff.
12. Habermas, ‘What is Universal Pragmatics?’ in Communication and the Evolution of Society (Boston: Beacon Press, 1979), pp. 1–68.
13. TCA, 1: 1–26.
14. Thomas McCarthy, The Critical Theory of Jürgen Habermas (Cambridge, Ma.: MIT Press, 1978), Chapter 4.
15. TCA, 1: 202 ff.
16. Communication and the Evolution of Society, pp. 102–106.
17. TCA, 1:200 ff.
18. TCA, 2:279 ff.
19. H. H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills, From Max Weber (New York: Oxford University Press, 1946), pp. 129–156.
20. Wolfgang Schluchter, ‘The Paradox of Rationalization,’ in Guenther Roth and Wolfgang Schluchter, Max Weber's Vision of History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979), pp. 11–64.
21. TCA, 2: 119.
22. Rainer Döbert, Systemtheorie und die Entwickiung religiöser Deutungssysteme (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1973), pp. 131–154.
23. TCA, 2:220 ff.
24. TCA, 1:235 ff.
25. Thomas McCarthy, ‘Reflections on Rationalization in The Theory of Communicative Action,’ Praxis International 4 (July 1984): 177–191.
26. ‘Religious Evolution,’ reprinted in Beyond Belief: Essays on Religion in a Post-Traditional World (New York: Harper and Row, 1970), pp. 20–50.
27. TCA, 1: 178–185
28. TCA, 1:184.
29. Ninian Smart, The Science of Religion and the Sociology of Knowledge: Some Methodological Questions (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973), Chs. 1 and 3.
30. TCA, 1: 237–238
31. The Religious Experience of Mankind (New York: Scribners, 1976, 2nd ed.), pp. 6 ff.
32. Peter Berger (ed.), The Other Side of God: A Polarity in World Religions (Garden City, N. Y.: Anchor-Doubleday, 1981).
33. John Hick, in his Philosophy of Religion (Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, 1983, 3rd ed.), pp. 31–39.
34. Habermas writes: ‘From the viewpoint of a modern understanding of the world, one could certainly criticize the religious worldviews that give a definite meaning to ascetic exercises, to mystical illumination, toyoga, and the like as irrational.’.
35. TCA, 1:182.
36. TCA, 1: 20–21.
37. Ninian Smart writes: “For what is often forgotten is that we have a long and delicate path to pick before we are really in a position to make an evaluation; and that path is phenomenological… We are still in a very early stage of scientific and human inquiry along these lines.“See his”Understanding Religious Experience,” in Steven Katz (ed.), Mysticism and Philosophical Analysis (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978), pp. 10–21.
38. TCA, 1: 197–198.
39. Habermas, ‘Wahrheitstheorien,’ originally in Wirklichkeit und Reflexion: Walter Schultz zum 60. Geburtstag, ed. Helmut Fahrenbach (Pfulligen: Neske, 1973), pp. 211–266.
40. Habermas, Vorstudien und Ergänzungen zur Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1984), pp. 127–183.
41. TCA, 1: 237
42. Habermas writes that “the presuppositions of discourse can be satisfied only after the therapy has been successful.”.
43. TCA, 1:21.
44. TCA, 1:20-21.
45. TCA, 2:65-68.
46. TCA, 2:147-168.
47. Habermas' views on “subjective nature,”.
48. Communication and the Evolution of Society, pp. 67–68.
49. TCA, 2:167.
50. TCA, 2:9 ff.
51. TCA, 1:239.
52. TCA, 1:238.
53. Bellah, “Religious Evolution,” pp. 39–44.
54. Döbert, p. 136.
55. Habermas, Communication and the Evolution of Society, pp.165–166.
56. Ian Barbour, Myths, Models and Paradigms: A Comparative Study in Science and Religion.
57. “The Problem of Proof,” in Eye to Eye: The Quest for the New Paradigm (Garden City, N. Y.: Anchor-Doubleday, 1983), pp. 1–81.
58. Huston Smith gives a more general account in his Forgotten Truth: The Primordial Tradition (New York: Harper and Row, 1976).
59. Charles Tart, “Science, States of Consciousness, and Spiritual Experiences: The Need for State-Specific Sciences,” in Tart, Transpersonal Psychologies (New York: Harper and Row, 1975), pp. 9–58.
60. Arthur Deikman, The Observing Self (Boston: Beacon Press, 1982).
61. Erich Fromm et al, Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis (New York: Harper and Row, 1970).
62. Jacob Needleman and Dennis Lewis (eds), On the Way to Self-Knowledge: The Aims and Disciplines of Sacred Traditions and Psychotherapy (New York: Knopf, 1976).
63. John Engler, Buddhist Satipatthāna-Vipassanā Meditation and an Object Relations Model of Therapeutic Developmental Change (unpublished Ph. D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 1983).
64. Engler, “Therapeutic Aims in Psychotherapy and Meditation: Developmental Stages in the Representation of Self,” Journal of Transpersonal Psychology 16 (1984): 25–61.
65. Ken Wilber, ‘The Developmental Spectrum and Psychopathology: Part I, Stages and Types of Pathology,’ Journal of Transpersonal Psychology 16 (1984): 75–118.
66. Daniel Brown, ‘A Model for the Levels of Concentrative Meditation,’ International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis 25 (1977): 236–273.
67. “A Reply to My Critics,” in Thompson and Held, Habermas: Critical Debates, pp. 219–283.
68. McCarthy's work is found in “Rationality and Relativism: Habermas' ‘Overcoming’ of Hermeneutics,” in the same volume, pp. 57–78.
69. Lawrence Kohlberg, The Philosophy of Moral Development (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1981), pp. 311–372.
70. TCA, 1: 214.
71. Communication and the Evolution of Society, p. 105.
72. Jacob Needleman writes in A Sense of the Cosmos: The Encounter of Modern Science and Ancient Truth (New York: Doubleday, 1976).