Language and reason : a study of Habermas's pragmatics
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Language and reason : a study of Habermas's pragmatics
（Studies in contemporary German social thought）
MIT Press, 1997, c1994
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"First MIT Press paperback edition, 1997" -- T.p. verso
"Works by Habermas cited in the text": p. [195]-196
Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-203) and index
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Language and Reason opens up new territory for social theorists by providing the first general introduction to Habermas's program of formal pragmatics: his reconstruction of the universal principles of possible understanding that, he argues, are already operative in everyday communicative practices.
Readers of Jurgen Habermas's Theory of Communicative Action and his later social theory know that the idea of communicative rationality is central to his version of critical theory. Language and Reason opens up new territory for social theorists by providing the first general introduction to Habermas's program of formal pragmatics: his reconstruction of the universal principles of possible understanding that, he argues, are already operative in everyday communicative practices. Philosophers of language will discover surprising and fruitful connections between Habermas's account of language and validity (especially his theory of meaning) and their own concerns.
Table of Contents
- Communicative action - an overview
- communicative rationality - an initial specification
- speech acts and validity claims
- a pragmatic theory of meaning - from comprehension to consensus
- communicative rationality - concluding discussion.
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