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Habermas and the dialectic of reason /

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 philos...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ingram, David, 1952-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1987.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The historical foundations of the theory of communicative action
  • - 2. Rationality, reality, and action
  • - 3. Understanding and language
  • - 4. Weberʹs theory of rationalization
  • - 5. From Lukacs to Adorno: rationalization as reification
  • - 6. Discourse on modernity: a philosophical interlude
  • - 7. From purposive to communicative action in the social theories of meal and Durkeim
  • - 8. System and life world
  • - 9. Talcoff Parsons: systems theory
  • - 10. From Parsons to Weber and Marx
  • - 11. The theory-practice problem revisited.