本課程雖然是探討Habermas的discourse ethics，但是因為Habermas的思想非常具有系統性，故而本課程也是介紹他思想的大要：他的theory of communication, communicative competence, ideal speech situation, universal pragmatics, 等等。 

• Communication and the Evolution of Society (Habermas) 
• The Theory of Communicative Action vol. I & II (Habermas) 
• Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action. (Habermas) 
• The Communicative Ethics Controversy (Ed. Seyla Benhabib and Fred Dallmayr) 

The Critical Theory of Jurgen Habermas (Thomas McCarthy)