Habermas and the Dialectic of Reason
By: David Ingram.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: New Haven, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780300036800
Copyright date: 1987
Subjects: Habermas, Jürgen.; Habermas, Jürgen.; Sociology -- Philosophy.; Rationalism.; Social action.; Communication -- Philosophy.; Functionalism (Social sciences)
Other titles: Habermas e a Dialética da Razão
Description: In his magnum opus, *Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns*, the distinguished philosopher Jurgen Habermas presented his ideas as a whole, providing the first major defense of his philosophy. David Ingram here summarizes the themes of Habermas's masterwork, placing them in the context of the philosopher's other work, relating them to poststructuralism, hermeneutics, and Neo-Aristotelianism, and surveying what other critics have said about Habermas.

(Source: [Yale University Press](https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300046137/habermas-and-dialectic-reason/))
Notes: Bibliography: p. 243-254.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Preface
pagenum: xi; label: 1.
title: The Historical Foundations of the Theory of Communicative Action
pagenum: 1; label: 2.
title: Rationality, Reality, and Action
pagenum: 19; label: 3.
title: Understanding and Language
pagenum: 32; label: 4.
title: Weber’s Theory of Rationalization
pagenum: 43; label: 5.
title: From Lukács to Adorno: Rationalization as Reification
pagenum: 60; label: 6.
title: Discourse on Modernity: A Philosophical Interlude
pagenum: 75; label: 7.
title: From Purposive to Communicative Action in the Social Theories of Mead and Durkheim
pagenum: 104; label: 8.
title: System and Lifeworld
pagenum: 115; label: 9.
title: Talcott Parsons: Systems Theory
pagenum: 135; label: 10.
title: From Parsons to Weber and Marx
pagenum: 148; label: 11.
title: The Theory-Practice Problem Revisited
pagenum: 172; title: Abbreviations
pagenum: 189; title: Notes
pagenum: 191; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 243; title: Index
pagenum: 255