Part I. Communicative rationality
Distorted communication : formal pragmatics as a critical theory / James Bohman
The real conditions for the possibility of communicative action / Lenore Langsdorf
Assertions, truth, and argumentation / Carlos Pereda
Habermas and Vico on mythical thought / Alexander Bertland
Myth, language, and Habermasian rationality : another Africana contribution / Paget Henry
Communicative action theory and the possibility of theology / Garth Gillian
Modernity's religion : Habermas and the linguistificaton of the Sacred / Eduardo Mendieta
Philosophy and the dialectic of modernity / Thelma Z. Lavine
Toward a pragmatics of artistic utterance / Beth J. Singer
Part II. Communicative ethics
Fallibilism, rational reconstruction, and the distinction between moral theory and ethical life / W.S.K. Cameron
Confucian reflections on Habermasian approaches : moral rationality and inter-humanity / Chung-Ying Cheng
The formal thought of Jürgen Habermas from the perspective of a universal material ethics / Enrique Dussel
Part III. Communicative politics
Habermas, the public sphere, and democracy : a critical intervention / Douglas Kellner
Individual freedom and social equality : Habermas's democratic revolution in the social contractarian justification of law / David Ingram
Law and politics in Between facts and norms / Paul G. Chevigny
On Habermas and difference : critical theory and the 'politics of recognition' / Lorenzo C. Simpson
The critical theorist as witness : Habermas and the Holocaust / Martin Beck Matustik
Discursive democracy and a democratic way of life / Scott Bartlett
Habermas in the "wild, wild West" / Max Oelschlaeger
Eurocentrically distorted communication / Bill Martin
Part IV. Comparisons
(A.) Historical materialism
Habermas and the Marxian tradition / William L. McBride
Social labor and communicative action / Marie Fleming
(B.) Hermeneutics
Critical theory and hermeneutics : some outstanding issues in the debate / G.B. Madison
Habermas versus Gadamer? Some remarks / Richard E. Palmer
(C.) Science, technology, and education
Habermas's unresolved dualism : Zweckrationalität as idée fixe / Larry A. Hickman
Habermas and Husserl on positivism and the phlosophy of science / David Detmer
Habermas and education / Robert Young
Part V. The future of critical theory
What's critical about critical theory? / James L. Marsh