Description
Book SynopsisThe core of this book is a set of five lectures delivered by Habermas at Princeton in 1971 under the title a Reflections on the Linguistic Foundation of Sociologya .
Table of ContentsTranslator's Introduction vii
Reflections on the Linguistic Foundation of Sociology: The Christian Gauss Lecture (Princeton University, February-March 1971) 1
I Objectivist and Subjectivist Approaches to Theory Formation in the Social Sciences 3
II The Phenomenological Constitutive Theory of Society: The Fundamental Role of Claims to Validity and the Monadological Foundations of Intersubjectivity 23
III From a Constitutive Theory to a Communicative Theory of Society (Sellars and Wittgenstein): Communicative and Cognitive Uses of Language 45
IV Universal Pragmatics: Reflections on a Theory of Communicative Competence 67
V Truth and Society: The Discursive Redemption of Factual Claims to Validity 85
Intentions, Conventions, and Linguistic Interactions (1976) 105
Reflections on Communicative Pathology (1974) 129
Notes 171
Index 183
