Communicative action : essays on Jürgen Habermas's Theory of communicative action
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Communicative action : essays on Jürgen Habermas's Theory of communicative action
（Studies in contemporary German social thought）
MIT Press, 1991
1st MIT Press ed
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Kommunikatives Handeln : Beiträge zu Jürgen Habermas' "Theorie des kommunkiativen Handelns"
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Translation of: Kommunikatives Handeln
Includes bibliographical references and index
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These critical essays on Jurgen 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, Gunter Dux, Jurgen Habermas, Hans Joas, Hans-Peter Kruger, Thomas McCarthy, Herbert Schnadelbach, Martin Seel, Charles Taylor
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