The Theory of Communicative Action: Volume 1: Reason and the Rationalization of Society

Voorkant
Beacon Press, 1 mrt 1985 - 512 pagina's
A major contribution to contemporary social theory. Not only does it provide a compelling critique of some of the main perspectives in 20th century philosophy and social science, but it also presents a systematic synthesis of the many themse which have preoccupied Habermas for thirty years. --Times Literary Supplement
 

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Introduction Approaches to the Problem of Rationality
1
1 Rationality A Preliminary Specification
8
2 Some Characteristics of the Mythical and the Modern Ways of Understanding the World
43
3 Relations to the World and Aspects of Rationality in Four Sociological Concepts of Action
75
4 The Problem of Understanding Meaning in the Social Sciences
102
Max Webers Theory of Rationalization
143
1 Occidental Rationalism
157
2 The Disenchantment of ReligiousMetaphysical World views and the Emergence of Modern Structures of Consciousness
186
4 The Rationalization of Law Webers Diagnosis of the Times
243
Intermediate Reflections Social Action Purposive Activity and Communication
273
From Lukacs to Adorno Rationalization as Reification
339
1 Max Weber in the Tradition of Western Marxism
345
2 The Critique of Instrumental Reason
366
Notes
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Index
459
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The Role of the Protestant Ethic
216

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Pagina 122 - Each term in a scientific model of human action must be constructed in such a way that a human act performed within the life-world by an individual actor in the way indicated by the typical construct would be understandable for the actor himself as well as for his fellowmen in terms of commonsense interpretation of everyday life.
Pagina 224 - The moral conduct of the average man was thus deprived of its planless and unsystematic character and subjected to a consistent method for conduct as a whole.
Pagina 10 - This concept of communicative rationality carries with it connotations based ultimately on the central experience of the unconstrained, unifying, consensus-bringing force of argumentative speech, in which different participants overcome their merely subjective views and, owing to the mutuality of rationally motivated conviction, assure themselves of both the unity of the objective world and the intersubjectivity of their lifeworld.
Pagina 57 - Reality is not what gives language sense. What is real and what is unreal shows itself in the sense that language has. Further, both the distinction between the real and the unreal and the concept of agreement with reality themselves belong to our language.
Pagina 59 - What we may learn by studying other cultures are not merely possibilities of different ways of doing things, other techniques. More importantly we may learn different possibilities of making sense of human life, different ideas about the possible importance that the carrying out of certain activities may take on for a man, trying to contemplate the sense of his life as a whole.
Pagina 280 - action' is included all human behavior when and insofar as the acting individual attaches a subjective meaning to it. ... Action is social insofar as, by virtue of the subjective meaning attached to it by the acting individual (or individuals), it takes account of the behavior of others and is thereby oriented in its course
Pagina 190 - ... has become habitual. The latter is much the most common type of subjective attitude. But even this type of order is in turn much less stable than an order which enjoys the prestige of being considered binding, or, as it may be expressed, of "legitimacy.

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Jürgen Habermas (born June 18, 1929) is a German sociologist and philosopher in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism.

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