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The The Theory of Communicative Action
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Translator's Introduction. Author's Preface. I. Introduction: Approaches to the Problem of Rationality. 1. "Rationality" - A Preliminary Specification. 2. Some Characteristics of the Mythical and the Modern Ways of Understanding the World. 3. Relations to the World and Aspects of Rationality in Four Sociological Concepts of Action. 4. The Problem of Understanding Meaning in the Social Sciences. II. Max Weber's Theory of Rationalization. 1. Occidental Rationalism. 2. The Disenchantment of Religious-Metaphysical Worldviews and the Emergence of Modern Structures of Consciousness. 3. Modernization as Societal Rationalization: The Role of the Protestant Ethic. 4. The Rationalization of Law: Weber's Diagnosis of the Times. III. Intermediate Reflections: Social Action, Purposive Activity, and Communication. IV. From Lukacs to Adorno: Rationalization as Reification. 1. Max Weber in the Tradition of Western Marxism. 2. The Critique of Instrumental Reason.

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Jürgen Habermas is a German philosopher and sociologist in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. He is perhaps best known for his theories on communicative rationality and the public sphere. In 2014, Prospect readers chose Habermas as one of their favourites among the "world's leading thinkers".

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