Emancipation and Illusion: Rationality and Gender in Habermas's Theory of Modernity

In this comprehensive analysis of Jurgen Habermas's philosophy and social theory, Marie Fleming takes strong issue with habermas over his understanding of rationality and the life-world, emancipation, history, and gender. Throughout the book she focuses attention on the various ways in which an idea of emancipation motivates and shapes his universalist theory and how it persists over several major changes in methodo...