Jürgen Habermas:
Things Needed to Get Better
Conversations with Stefan Müller-Doohm and Roman Yos
(Polity Press, 2025), 186 pages
The English translation of Es musste etwas besser werden... (Suhrkamp, 2024).
Translated by Wieland Hoban.
Table of contents
1. Beginnings of an Academic Biography
2. Frankfurt, a New World and the Old Heidelberg
3. From the Critique of Positivism to the Critique of Functionalist Reason
4. Postmetaphysical Thinking and Detranscendentalized Reason
5. Looking Back on Also a History of Philosophy
6. In Philosophical Discourse with Friends and Colleagues
It is a great honour that, in the book, Habermas expresses his thanks to me for my bibliography of the extensive secondary literature on the Habermas Forum website: “I am very grateful for this extraordinary commitment and the bibliographical inventory of an overwhelming and constant stream of secondary literature” (p. 76).
The book will also appear in Spanish (Trotta), in Chinese (Shanghai People’s Publishing House), in Russian (NLO), in Portuguese (UNESP), in French (Gallimard), in Italian (Feltrinelli), in Japanese (Iwanami), in Korean (Sechang), in Polish (Scholar), and in Bulgarian (KX – Critique and Humanism).