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Cristina Lafont

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E-mail: clafont@northwestern.edu

Ph.D. University of Frankfurt . Habilitation, University of Frankfurt. She specializes in German philosophy, particularly hermeneutics and critical theory. She has also published in philosophy of language and contemporary moral and political philosophy. She is author of The Linguistic Turn in Hermeneutic Philosophy (MIT Press, 1999) and Heidegger, Language, and World-disclosure (Cambridge University Press, 2000).

CURRENT CV

 

Work

Books

• Habermas Handbuch (Stuttgart: Metzler Verlag, 2009). Co-edited with H. Brunkhorst and R. Kreide.
• Heidegger, Language and World-Disclosure (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000)
• The Linguistic Turn in Hermeneutic Philosophy (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999)
  • Galician (~Portuguese) translation of ch.2: "A Consideración da linguaxe na súa dimensión constitutiva nas conceptións de Humboldt", Grial 40 (2002), 35-67.
• Sprache und Welterschließung. Zur linguistischen Wende der Hermeneutik Heideggers (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp 1994).
  • Spanish Edition: Lenguaje y apertura del mundo (Madrid: Alianza Ed., 1997)
• La razón como lenguaje. Un analisis del giro linguístico en la filosofía del lenguaje alemana (Madrid: Visor, 1993)

Selection of Recent Articles

• “Religion and the Public Sphere. What are the Deliberative Obligations of Democratic Citizenship?”, in Philosophy & Social Criticism, 35/1-2 (2009), 127-50.
• “Alternative Visions of a New Global Order: What should Cosmopolitans hope for?”, in Ethics & Global Politics 1/1-2 (2008), 1-20.
• “Meaning and Interpretation. Can Brandomian Scorekeepers be Gadamerian Hermeneuts?”, in Philosophy Compass 2 (2007), 1-13.
• “Religion in the Public Sphere: Remarks on Habermas's Conception of Public Deliberation in Post-secular Societies”, in Constellations , 14/2 (2007), 236-56.
• "Is the Ideal of a Deliberative Democracy Coherent?", in S. Besson and J.L. Martí (eds.), Deliberative Democracy and its Discontents, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006, pp. 3-26.
• "Heidegger and the Synthetic Apriori", in J. Malpas and S. Crowell (eds.), Transcendental Heidegger, California: Stanford University Press, 2007, pp. 104-118.
• "Was Heidegger an Externalist?", in Inquiry 48/6 (2005), pp. 507-532.
• "Universalization or Threat Advantage: The Difficult Dialogue between Discourse Ethics and The Theory of Rational Choice", in Dialogue 44 (2005), pp. 373-82.
• "Heidegger's Hermeneutics", in H. Dreyfus and M. Wrathall (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Heidegger , Cambridge , MA : Blackwell, 2005, pp. 265-284.
• "Moral Objectivity and Reasonable Agreement: Can Realism be reconciled with Kantian Constructivism?", Ratio Juris 17/1 (2004), pp. 27-51.
• "Procedural Justice? Implications of the Rawls-Habermas Debate for Discourse Ethics", Philosophy and Social Criticism , 29/2 (2003), pp.167-185.
• "Précis of Heidegger, Language, and World-disclosure ", Inquiry 45 (2002), pp.185-90.
• "Replies", Inquiry 45 (2002), pp.229-48.

Recent On-line Contributions

• "Inclusion and Accountability in the Public Sphere", The Immanent Frame.
• "Religious Citizens and Public Reasons", The Immanent Frame.

Research

• Link to Habermas-texts and comments on his work
• Encyclopedia-article on Habermas with further links
• Older Link with still valuable and rich information and 'apocryphic' texts

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