Jürgen Habermas bibliography

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Jürgen Habermas (born 1929) is a German sociologist and philosopher. His works span books, articles, journals, newspapers, lectures, reviews, dialogues, and speeches. He writes in the traditions of critical theory and pragmatism. He is best known for his ideas of communicative rationality and the public sphere. His interests include the foundations of social theory and epistemology, the analysis of advanced capitalist societies and democracy, the rule of law in evolving societies, and contemporary politics, especially German politics. Habermas aims to show that reason, emancipation, and rational-critical communication can emerge in modern institutions and in people’s ability to deliberate and pursue rational interests.

The bibliography summarized here draws on major sources, including Mapping Habermas from German to English: A Bibliography of Primary Literature 1952-1995 (Demetrios Douramanis), Jürgen Habermas: A Bibliography (René Görtzen), and Jürgen Habermas. A Bibliography: Works and Studies (1952-2013) by Luca Corchia, plus other scholars’ research. The catalog covers the full range of Habermas’s output: books, collections, interviews, prefaces to later editions, papers, journal and periodical contributions, speeches, reviews of others’ works, and dialogues. Many items are collections that are organized chronologically in this bibliography. Works not in books are listed as separate items. Because many writings originated in journals, newspapers, edited volumes, lectures, or discussion papers, their sources are noted in footnotes.