M. Pusey-Jurgen Habermas (Key Sociologists)

M. Pusey-Jurgen Habermas (Key Sociologists) (1988)

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Pages  129

acknowledgements 9

Introduction 13

Habermas 13

His challenge 14

And its context 15

Chapter 1 Foundations

From the philosophical foundations 19

To the sociological reconstructions 26

And the reconstitution of critical theory 32

Chapter 2 Culture, evolution, rationalization and method

Introduction 39

The evolution of society and culture 40

From traditional society to modernity: the reconstruction of

Max Weber’s Theory of Rationalization 47

Method and meaning 57

Chapter 3 Communication and social action

Introduction 69

‘Systematically distorted communication’ and

‘ideal speech’ situation 69

Speech-actions 75

Communicative action 78

Chapter 4 The political sociology of advanced capitalist societies

Introduction 87

The ‘crises’ of legitimation, motivation and the state 92

Lifeworld and and system 105

Concluding comments

An empty intellectualism? 114

The ‘movement of reflection’—forwards, upwards and sideways,

downwards or nowhere? 116

An insufficiently critical theory? 119

Finally… 121

Further reading 123

Index 126