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Jürgen Habermas (UK: / ˈ h ɑː b ər m æ s /, US: /-m ɑː s /; [3] German: [ˈjʏʁɡn̩ ˈhaːbɐmaːs] ⓘ; [4] [5] born 18 June 1929) is a German philosopher and social theorist in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism.
The Theory of Communicative Action (German: Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns) is a two-volume 1981 book by the philosopher Jürgen Habermas, in which the author continues his project of finding a way to ground "the social sciences in a theory of language", [1] which had been set out in On the Logic of the Social Sciences (1967).
Habermas during a discussion in the Munich School of Philosophy 2008. The works of the German sociologist and philosopher Jürgen Habermas (born June 18, 1929) include books, papers, contributions to journals, periodicals, newspapers, lectures given at conferences and seminars, reviews of works by other authors, and dialogues and speeches given in various occasions.
Jürgen Habermas. Communicative rationality or communicative reason (German: kommunikative Rationalität) is a theory or set of theories which describes human rationality as a necessary outcome of successful communication.
[4] Historian Ian McNeeley, for instance, contrasts Habermas' view with Michel Foucault's notion of communication as embodying pre-existing power relationships: "Jürgen Habermas subscribes to an unrealistic ideal of power-free communication…Michel Foucault remedies this idealism by treating knowledge as power; his work is in fact suffused ...
The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures (German: Der Philosophische Diskurs der Moderne: Zwölf Vorlesungen) is a 1985 book by the philosopher Jürgen Habermas, in which the author reconstructs and deals in depth with a number of philosophical approaches to the critique of modern reason and the Enlightenment "project" since Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich ...
Works by Jürgen Habermas (8 P) Pages in category "Jürgen Habermas" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
Jürgen Habermas Habermas discusses the history of positivism, aiming to provide an analysis of "the connections between knowledge and human interests." He relates his ideas to those of the philosopher Karl Marx , explaining that he develops an idea "implicit in Marx's theory of society".