Communicative Action: Essays on Jürgen Habermas's The Theory of Communicative ActionAxel Honneth, Hans Joas 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 discussion 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. ContributorsJeffrey 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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... thought ) Translation of : Kommunikatives Handeln . Includes bibliographical references . ISBN 0-262-08196-2 1. Habermas , Jürgen . Theories des kommunikativen Handelns . Philosophy . 3. Communication - Philosophy . 4. Rationalism . I ...
... thought ) Translation of : Kommunikatives Handeln . Includes bibliographical references . ISBN 0-262-08196-2 1. Habermas , Jürgen . Theories des kommunikativen Handelns . Philosophy . 3. Communication - Philosophy . 4. Rationalism . I ...
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Contents
The Transformation of Critical Theory | 7 |
Language and Society 23 | 23 |
Remarks 336 | 36 |
Beyond the Marxian | 49 |
On the Reconstruction | 74 |
The Unhappy Marriage of Hermeneutics and Functionalism | 97 |
or the Seducements of Systems | 119 |
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