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Here, for the first time in English, is volume one of Jurgen Habermasa s long--awaited magnum opus: The Theory of Communicative Action.

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Translator's Introduction. Author's Preface. I. Introduction: Approaches to the Problem of Rationality. 1. "Rationality" - A Preliminary Specification. 2. Some Characteristics of the Mythical and the Modern Ways of Understanding the World. 3. Relations to the World and Aspects of Rationality in Four Sociological Concepts of Action. 4. The Problem of Understanding Meaning in the Social Sciences. II. Max Weber's Theory of Rationalization. 1. Occidental Rationalism. 2. The Disenchantment of Religious-Metaphysical Worldviews and the Emergence of Modern Structures of Consciousness. 3. Modernization as Societal Rationalization: The Role of the Protestant Ethic. 4. The Rationalization of Law: Weber's Diagnosis of the Times. III. Intermediate Reflections: Social Action, Purposive Activity, and Communication. IV. From Lukacs to Adorno: Rationalization as Reification. 1. Max Weber in the Tradition of Western Marxism. 2. The Critique of Instrumental Reason.

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      Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Published 2 June 1986
      ISBN-13 9780745603865
      978-0745603865
      ISBN-10 0745603866
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      Dictionaries, Reference & Language Communication studies

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Here, for the first time in English, is volume one of Jurgen Habermasa s long--awaited magnum opus: The Theory of Communicative Action.

      Table of Contents
      Translator's Introduction. Author's Preface. I. Introduction: Approaches to the Problem of Rationality. 1. "Rationality" - A Preliminary Specification. 2. Some Characteristics of the Mythical and the Modern Ways of Understanding the World. 3. Relations to the World and Aspects of Rationality in Four Sociological Concepts of Action. 4. The Problem of Understanding Meaning in the Social Sciences. II. Max Weber's Theory of Rationalization. 1. Occidental Rationalism. 2. The Disenchantment of Religious-Metaphysical Worldviews and the Emergence of Modern Structures of Consciousness. 3. Modernization as Societal Rationalization: The Role of the Protestant Ethic. 4. The Rationalization of Law: Weber's Diagnosis of the Times. III. Intermediate Reflections: Social Action, Purposive Activity, and Communication. IV. From Lukacs to Adorno: Rationalization as Reification. 1. Max Weber in the Tradition of Western Marxism. 2. The Critique of Instrumental Reason.

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