Books : Communicative Action: Essays on Jürgen Habermas's The Theory of Communicative Action (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)
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from: The MIT Press
Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 301.01
EAN num: 9780262081962
ISBN number: 0262081962
Label: The MIT Press
Manufacturer: The MIT Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 311
Printing Date: February 28, 1991
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These critical essays on Jürgen Habermas's major contribution to sociological theory, The Theory of Communicative Action, provide an indispensable guide for anyone trying to grasp that large, difficult, and important work.
The editors' introduction traces the history of the reception of the work and identifies the main themes on which discusion has focused: a concept of communicative rationality; a theory of action based on distinguishing communicative from instrumental reason; a two-level concept of society that integrates lifeworld and system paradigms; and a critical theory of modernity meant to diagnose the sociopathologies of contemporary society.
Axel Honneth is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Berlin. Hans Joas is Professor of Sociology at the Free University, Berlin.
Contributors: Jeffrey Alexander. Johann P. Arnason. Johannes Berger. Günter Dux. Jürgen Habermas. Hans Joas. Hans-Peter Krüger. Thomas McCarthy. Herbert Schnädelbach. Martin Seel. Charles Taylor.
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