Jürgen Habermas. A Bibliography

the long version

The list of Habermas’ production includes books, collections, inter-views, prefaces to later editions of his own books, papers, contributions to journals, periodicals, newspapers, lectures given at conferences and seminars, etc., reviews of works by other authors, dialogues and the numerous laudatio speeches given in various occasions – a literary genre in which he excels. Furthermore, Habermas’ publications are often collection of writings which have been taken and re-ordered chronologically in this bibliography. In view of the complex structure of some books, such as Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns, Die Moderne-Ein unvollendetes Projekt: Philosophischpolitische Aufsätze and Faktizität und Geltung, we have preferred to indicate the titles of each chapter using a subnumeration. This allows the reader to easily individuate the themes, the ‘systemic theory’, the authors, the ‘history of ideas’ they deal with. The sources used in preparing this bibliography are primarly, the original editions and their translations, with their internal references. In addition to their direct consultation I used the indication given by editors in prefaces or in appendix, telematic archives of scientific journals, and I used the results of researches carried out by René Görzen (1978 , 1982 , 1986 , 1990 , 2002 ), Marina Calloni (1983 , 1984 ), José María Aguirre Oraa (1992) , Mathieu Deflem (1994) , Demetrios Douramanis (1995) , Stefano Petrucciani (2000) and Maria Zens (2009) . The Habermas Forum, edited by Kristian Hansen e Thomas Gregersen , represented an indispensable and updated working tool. These sources has been used also for a first draft of the chronological bibliography about studies dedicated to Habermas between 1964 and 2010; researches on online search engines helped expanding that draft. A complete discourse about the reception of Habermas’ works, though necessary, would require a resource pool by far superior of what is available to a single devoted admirer. Only an international and transdisciplinar working team could collect, order and value the contribution of critical literature about its canonical tasks: the hermeneutical understanding of the body of works trough the analysis of texts, of sources, of cultural backgrounds and contexts, returning to the reader the author’s reflections and translating specialistic language in everyday’s language keeping scientific rigor... and narrative taste.