Habermas and the dialectic of reason /

Habermas and the dialectic of reason / David Ingram.

"In his magnum opus, Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns, the distinguished philosopher Jurgen Habermas presented his ideas as a whole, providing the first major defense of his philosophy. David Ingram here summarizes the themes of Habermas's masterwork, placing them in the context of the...

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Main Author: Ingram, David, 1952- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [1987]
Subjects:
Habermas, Jürgen.
Habermas, Jürgen. > Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns.
Sociology > Philosophy.
Rationalism.
Social action.
Communication > Philosophy.
Functionalism (Social sciences)
System theory.
Table of Contents:
  • The historical foundations of the theory of communicative action
  • - Rationality, reality, and action
  • - Understanding and language
  • - Weberʹs theory of rationalization
  • - From Lukács to Adorno: rationalization as reification
  • - Discourse on modernity: a philosophical interlude
  • - From purposive to communicative action in the social theories of Mead and Durkheim
  • - System and lifeworld
  • - Talcott Parsons: systems theory
  • - From Parsons to Weber and Marx
  • - The theory-practice problem revisited.

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