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Title: Habermass on Historical Materialism (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy) by Tom Rockmore ISBN: 0-253-20504-2 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: June, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95

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Summary: Review of Rockmore's Habermas and Hisorical Materialism
Comment: This is one of the most important works in the secondary literature on Habermas. Rockmore's book avoids the shameless apologetics we find inside the covers of a number of "critical" introductions to this complex and evolving philosophical project. Rockmore's approach is what we might wish to call meta-methodological -- its purpose is to try to show how and why Habermas moves from various strategies to reconstruct historical materialism in the 70's, to the strategy of theory replacement in the 80's (normative foundations through weak transcendental arguments). Given that Habermas's work since the Theory of Communicative Action remains controversial evan among long-time fellow travelers, this detective story is still timely and warranted. Although it sometimes seems that Rockmore could have used a stronger editor, in that distinctions are often drawn with too fine a brush, the book has much to recommend it, and rewards the patient reader.