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Communicative Action: Essays on Jürgen Habermas's The Theory of Communicative Action

By Axel Honneth , Jeremy Gaines , Hans Joas , Doris L. Jones

Book information

Publisher
The MIT Press
Year
1991
ISBN
0262081962, 9780262081962, 9780585336169
LCC
HM24.H323 K6513 1990
Open Library ID
OL1854372M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
17 MB (17847307 bytes)
Series
Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
Edition
1
Pages
157\157
Library
demonoid.me
Time added
2011-03-06 17:00:15

Description

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. 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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