# Habermas Commentary/Books/TCA2

Commentary on Jürgen Habermas, The Theory of Communicative Action, vol. 2: Lifeworld and System copyright 1981 by Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main (Germany) third corrected edition 1985 translated by Thomas McCarthy published 1987 by Beacon Press (Boston)
Note that the first four headings, below, appear in volume 1:

##### From Lukacs to Adorno: Rationalization as Reification

Here, in volume 2:

## The Paradigm Shift in Mead and Durkheim: From Purposive Activity to Communicative Action

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#### The Foundations of Social Science in the Theory of Communication

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#### The Authority of the Sacred and the Normative Background of Communicative Action

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#### The Rational Structure of the Linguistification of the Sacred

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## Intermediate Reflections: System and Lifeworld

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#### The Concept of the Lifeworld and the Hermeneutic Idealism of Interpretive Sociology

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#### The Uncoupling of System and Lifeworld

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## Talcott Parsons: Problems in Constructing a Theory of Society

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#### From a Normativistic Theory of Action to a Systems Theory of Society

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#### The Development of Systems Theory

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#### The Theory of Modernity

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## Concluding Reflections: From Parsons via Weber to Marx

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#### A Backward Glance: Weber's Theory of Modernity

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#### Marx and the Thesis of Internal Colonization

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#### The Tasks of a Critical Theory of Society

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