Habermas on Sports

Social Theory from a Moral Perspective

Bibliographic Data

ID23668804
AuthorsWilliam J Morgan (corresponding author)
Year2004
Pages173-186
Publication date2004-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueSport and Modern Social Theorists (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9780230523180_12
OpenAlexW204656031
ISBN9780230523180
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited6

Jürgen Habermas is, without question, one of the leading social theorists and cultural critics of our time. His large and impressive body of work has attracted the attention of scholars worldwide in such fields as sociology, philosophy, political theory, history, and cultural studies. This wide readership confirms his own far ranging intellectual interests and wide berth of learning. Habermas studied economics, philosophy, history, and psychology at the Universities of Göttingen, Zurich, and Bonn. The conspicuous absence of sociology here is not owed to any indifference on Habermas’s part, but to the rather astonishing fact that it was not taught at any of these universities. This explains why he did not take up its study until he had completed his dissertation and was working as a freelance journalist. The sociology of labour was his first and main interest in this period, as can be gleaned from the title of one of his early publications, ‘The Dialectics of Rationalization: Concerning Alienation in Production and Consumption’, which was published in the German journal Merkur (Adorno, 1954). It was around this time that Habermas was introduced by a mutual friend to Theodor Adorno, one of the leading intellectuals of his time and a chief architect of the so-called Frankfurt School of critical theory, who had per chance read his essay in Merkur . Adorno subsequently invited him to the University of Frankfurt to become his research assistant. Thus began Habermas’s long association with Adorno and his fellow Frankfurt School compatriots Max Horkheimer and Herbert Marcuse, and the long identification of his work with this critical school of thought — an identification not all to his liking. 1 These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

Alienation · Critical theory · Dialectic · Epistemology · German · Political science · Politics · Social science · Social theory · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Cultural Studies · Law · Philosophy

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