Making sense of Jürgen Habermas:The politics of short philosophical introductions
The article focuses on a thematic titled Making Sense of Jürgen Habermas: The Politics of Short Philosophical Introductions and proposes as driver’s logbook the emphasis placed on the signals provided within the series of the grand interpreters of Habermas, seen as ”nodal points”. Such signals are concerning: the primate of recognition and of adaptation to the updated requirements of the moment of the reading ; the approach by simplification of long and technical writings, by the attention given to the accommodation of a first reading to the complex and varied answers provided for the great questions; the recomposing of details which are not enough interpreted, the addition of other details, the nomination of whatever is important, or, on the contrary of the marginal elements of the analysis; the provision of an overview and of philosophical and political context for the whole project; the summary nomination and the extended analysis of the research programmes; the facilitating of the access to a specialized bibliography, through reading suggestions and a brief presentation of the books, studies and articles dedicated to the works of the German philosopher.
Keywords: Jürgen Habermas, short introduction(s), making sense of, biography and contextualisation.
1. James Gordon Finlayson, O scurtă introducere. Habermas, Editura All, Bucureşti, 2011.
2. Lydia Alix Fillingham, (text), Moshe “MOSH” Süsser (ilustraţii), Foucault for Beginners, Writers and Readers, Inc., 1993.
3. Jim Powell, Van Howell, Derrida for Beginners, Orient Longman, London, 2000.
4. Lasse Thomassen, Habermas: A Guide for the Perplexed, Continuum Books, 2010.
5. Considerată instrument oferit lectorului perplex, colecţia Guides for the Perplex definește prin perplexitate o stare continuă (aluzie şi la Editura Continuum) şi însumează peste 35 de titluri recomandate depăşirii dificultăţilor de interpretare şi interesului acordat explicaţiei şi explorării ideilor – serie din care nu lipsesc op-uri dedicate lui Adorno, Arendt, Aristotel, Deleuze, Derrida, Sartre, pragmatismului sau utilitarismului etc.
6. James Gordon Finlayson, op. cit., pp. 14-16.
7. Ibidem, p. 7.
8. Lasse Thomassen semnalează- în bibliografie – contribuţia lui Gordon Finlayson, „Does Hegel`s Critique of Kant`s Moral Theory Apply to Discourse Ethics”, din P. Dews (ed.), Habermas: A Critical Reader, Blackwell, Oxford, 1999, pp. 29-52.
9. James Gordon Finlayson, op. cit., p. 9.
10. Lasse Thomassen, op.cit., p. 4.
11. Ibidem, p. 5.
12. James Gordon Finlayson, op. cit., p. 9.
13. Ibidem, pp. 13-14.
14. Lasse Thomassen, op.cit., p. 15.
15. James Gordon Finlayson, op. cit., p. 14.
16. Ibidem, p. 173.
17. Stefan Müller-Doohm, Habermas: A Biography, Polity Press, Cambridge, 2016.
18. Barbara Fultner, Jürgen Habermas: Key Concepts, Routledge, 2014.
19. Volumul face parte din colecția dedicată de Editura Routledge conceptelor fundamentele ale lui Adorno, Badiou, Bourdieu, Deleuze, Foucault, Heidegger, Kant, Ranciere, Merleau-Ponty sau Wittgenstein.
20. A se vedea, în acest sens, partea I, Catastrofă şi emancipare, subcapitolul 1, pp. 9-33, cu noduri de interes în anul 1929 şi în placa turnantă a anului 1945 (Stefan Müller-Doohm, Habermas: A Biography, Polity Press, Cambridge, 2016).
21. Stefan Müller-Doohm, op.cit., p. X.
22. Ibidem, pp. 1-4.
23. A se vedea, în acest sens, Studiul introductiv (cuprinzător) al lui Andrei Marga, la Jürgen Habermas, Discursul filosofic al modernităţii 12 prelegeri, All Educaţional, Bucureşti, 2000.
24. Ibidem, p. 425.
25. Barbara Fultner, Jürgen Habermas: Key Concepts, Routledge, 2014, pp. 239-241.
26. Max Pensky, „Historical and intellectual contexts”, in Barbara Fultner, op.cit., pp. 13-35.
27.Michael Reno, „Habermas”, in Marx & Philosophy, 18 iunie 2012, http://marxhttp://marxan dphilosophy.org.uk/ reviewofbooks/reviews/2012/564andphilosophy.org.uk/ reviewofbooks/reviews/2012/564.
