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Reason, Justice and Modernity

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January 10, 2023 | History

The Recent Work of Jürgen Habermas

Reason, Justice and Modernity

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Jürgen Habermas is one of the foremost philosophers and social theorists in the world today. But the complexity and breadth of his thought make him often difficult to understand. In this book, Stephen White offers a clear, accessible, and reliable introduction to Habermas's work, particularly that which he has written since the publication of Knowledge and human interest (produced in English in 1971). During this period, new themes and directions have emerged in Habermas's thought, which culminated in The Theory of Communicative Action, a massive work that has not hitherto been the subject of extended commentary and analysis. This book is the first to provide a full-length study of Habermas's mature thought. Locating the latter in the context of contemporary debates, White explains Habermas's ideas about action, rationality, communicative ethics, contemporary capitalism, and new social movements, which characterize his later work. He also examines Habermas's interpretation of modernity, showing that although, like his forerunners in the Frankfurt School, Habermas maintains a critical stance towards modernity's instrumentalization of reason, he nonetheless offers a sophisticated defense of the universal significance of other aspects of modern consciousness that are too often forgotten by many recent radical critics of modernity. Throughout, White presents Habermas's work in such a way as to emphasize its coherence, and to demonstrate how it constitutes the beginnings of a distinctive new research program in the social sciences. As a well-researched and lucid account of Habermas's thought, this book will appeal to readers wanting an introduction to the complexity of his ideas, as well as to those already conversant with them. It will also interest social and political theorists concerned with the general theoretical issues that it covers.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Page ix
List of abbreviations
Page xi
Introduction
Page 1
1. Rationality, social theory and political philosophy
Page 7
I. Strategic rationality
Page 10
II. Contextual rationality
Page 13
III. Universalism, Strategie and rationality
Page 22
2. Action, rationality and normative discourse
Page 25
I. The critique of positivism and the linguistic turn
Page 25
II. Communicative competence and communicative rationality
Page 28
III. Models of action and rationality
Page 36
IV. Communicative action and strategic action
Page 44
3. Justice and the foundations of communicative ethics
Page 48
I. The principle of universalization
Page 48
II. The “speech-act-immanent obligation”
Page 50
III. The presuppositions of argumentation
Page 55
IV. Moral development and interactive competence
Page 58
Appendix
Page 66
4. Toward a minimal ethics and orientation for political theory
Page 69
I. The discursive interpretation of the demand for reciprocity
Page 69
II. A minimal ethics
Page 73
III. A different voice in the conversation
Page 83
IV. The communicative model and political theory: an initial link
Page 85
5. Communicative reason, modernity and contemporary capitalism
Page 90
I. Modern structures of consciousness and a “rationalized lifeworld”
Page 92
II. Systems theory and rationalization
Page 103
III. The costs of modernization: “colonization of the lifeworld”
Page 107
IV. The costs of modernization: “cultural impoverishment”
Page 116
V. New social movements
Page 123
6. The two tasks of critical theory
Page 128
I. A non-foundationalist universalism
Page 129
II. Modernity and the domination of “outer’ nature
Page 136
III. Modernity and the domination of “inner” nature
Page 144
IV. Concluding remarks
Page 153
Notes
Page 155
Bibliography
Page 179
Index
Page 187

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Bibliography: p. 179-186.
Includes index.

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Other Titles
Razão, Justiça, Modernidade: A Recente Obra de Jürgen Habermas

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301/.0943
Library of Congress
HM22.G3 H348 1988, HM22.G3 H348 1987

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