| Description |
vi, 387 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. The Transformation of the Public Sphere's Political Function -- 2. On the Concept of Public Opinion -- 3. Technical Progress and the Social Lifeworld -- 4. The Scientization of Politics and Public Opinion -- 5. Technology and Science as "Ideology" -- 6. The Positivistic Dissolution of the Claimed Unity of Theory and Praxis -- 7. Dogmatism, Reason, and Decision -- 8. Knowledge and Human Interests -- 9. The Dualism of the Natural and Cultural Sciences -- 10. What is Universal Pragmatics? -- 11. Relations to the World and Aspects of Rationality in Four Sociological Concepts of Action -- 12. The Problem of Understanding Meaning in the Social Sciences -- 13. Social Action, Purposive Activity, and Communication -- 14. The Three Roots of Communicative Action -- 15. Discourse Ethics -- 16. Remarks on Discourse Ethics -- 17. Morality and Ethical Life -- 18. Law and Morality -- 19. The Constitutional State -- 20. Discourse Theory and the Public Sphere -- 21. Historical Materialism and the Development of Normative Structures -- 22. Social Principles of Organization -- 23. Legitimation Problems in the Modern State -- 24. Weber's Theory of Modernity -- 25. The Uncoupling of System and Lifeworld -- 26. Marx and the Thesis of Internal Colonization -- 27. The Tasks of a Critical Theory of Society -- 28. Modernity's Consciousness of Time and Its Need for Self-Reassurance -- 29. The Normative Content of Modernity -- Select Bibliography of Habermas's Writings |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Habermas, JÃÂÃÂ1/4rgen
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Habermas, Jürgen.
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| SUBJECT |
Critical theory. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84709838
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| Subject |
Communication -- Social aspects.
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Critical theory.
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Frankfurt school of sociology.
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Philosophy, German -- 20th century.
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Philosophy.
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Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century.
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Social evolution.
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Social sciences -- Philosophy.
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| Author |
Outhwaite, William.
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| ISBN |
0745613934 |
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0745613942 (paperback) |
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