The Theory of Communicative Action: Lifeworld and system : a critique of functionalist reason

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Beacon Press, 1984 - Social Science - 457 pages
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Contents

The Authority of the Sacred and the Normative
43
The Rational Structure of the Linguistification of
77
System and Lifeworld
113
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Jürgen Habermas
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abstract action orientations action system actors already analysis appear aspects attitude authority basic become behavior collective communicative action complex components concept connection consciousness consensus constituted context critical cultural differentiation domains Durkheim economic effects empirical exchange expectation experience explain expression fact follows force formal functional given hand idea identity imperatives individual institutionalization institutions interaction interests internal interpretation knowledge labor language legitimation lifeworld linguistic longer Mead means mechanism medium moral motives nature norms objects organized orientations Parsons participants pattern perspective political position possible practice present problems question rationalization reaching reason reference regulated relations religious reproduction response role rule sacred sense situation social integration society specific speech spheres steering structures subsystems symbolic theory tion tradition understanding validity claims Weber

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About the author (1984)

Jurgen Habermas is a German sociologist who studied at the universities of Gottingen, Zurich, and Bonn. He taught at Frankfurt am Main, Marburg, and Heidelberg before becoming professor of philosophy at the University of Frankfurt. His works, widely translated, have made him one of the most influential social theorists of our time. Habermas is considered by some to be an intellectual heir to Max Weber and what has been called the Frankfurt School. His work has centered mainly on the role of communication and technology in changing patterns of social relations, human activity, and values. An outspoken advocate of the Enlightenment and a champion of reason, he has also cautioned that the technical rationality associated with modern capitalism often functions as ideology and may stand in the way of human progress.

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TitleThe Theory of Communicative Action: Lifeworld and system : a critique of functionalist reason
Volume 2 of The Theory of Communicative Action, Jürgen Habermas
AuthorsJurgen Habermas, Jürgen Habermas
Translated byThomas McCarthy
ContributorThomas McCarthy
Edition3
PublisherBeacon Press, 1984
ISBN0807014001, 9780807014004
Length457 pages
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