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Offers a systematic reconstruction of the theoretical foundations and framework of critical social theory.

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Part 5 The paradigm shift in Mead and Durkheim: from purposive activity to communicative action; the foundations of social science in the theory of communication; the authority of the sacred and the normative background of communicative action; the rational structure of the linguistification of the sacred. Part 6 Intermediate reflections: system and lifeworld; the concept of the lifeworld and the hermeneutic idealism of interpretive sociology; the uncoupling of system and lifeworld. Part 7 Talcott Parsons: problems in constructing a theory of society; from a normativistic theory of action to a systems theory of society; the develpment of systems theory; the theory of modernity. Part 8 Concluding reflections - from Parsons via Weber to Marx: a backward glance - Weber's theory of modernity; Marx and the thesis of internal colonization; the tasks of a critical theory of society.

The Theory of Communicative Action

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 05/10/1989
      ISBN13: 9780745607702, 978-0745607702
      ISBN10: 0745607705

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Offers a systematic reconstruction of the theoretical foundations and framework of critical social theory.

      Table of Contents
      Part 5 The paradigm shift in Mead and Durkheim: from purposive activity to communicative action; the foundations of social science in the theory of communication; the authority of the sacred and the normative background of communicative action; the rational structure of the linguistification of the sacred. Part 6 Intermediate reflections: system and lifeworld; the concept of the lifeworld and the hermeneutic idealism of interpretive sociology; the uncoupling of system and lifeworld. Part 7 Talcott Parsons: problems in constructing a theory of society; from a normativistic theory of action to a systems theory of society; the develpment of systems theory; the theory of modernity. Part 8 Concluding reflections - from Parsons via Weber to Marx: a backward glance - Weber's theory of modernity; Marx and the thesis of internal colonization; the tasks of a critical theory of society.

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