Toward a Rational Society: Student Protest, Science, and Politics
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Knowledge, communication, action - these are the concepts central to all of Habermas's thought. As a philosopher, he is concerned with the rational connection of these concepts. As a sociologist, he... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0807041777
ISBN13:9780807041772
Release Date:August 1971
Publisher:Beacon Press
Length:142 Pages
Weight:0.35 lbs.
Dimensions:8.5" x 0.4" x 5.5"
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This is a seriously great book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
For a long time, Towards a Rational Society topped my list of Desert Island Books, particularly the third chapter, Science and Technology as Rationality. As a social scientist, it encapsulated for me the whole problem with positivist science approaches, as well as making clear the fundamental distinction between purposive rationality and other less instrusive and more community-developing forms of communicative action. It is often seen as ironic that Habermas, a man with a cleft palate who writes in such a turgid and convoluted way, should be a premier exponent of the theory of communication, systemativally distorted or otherwise. Here is a book that shows why and how he is a genius, and in the clearest and most straightforward way. It also clearly shows his debts to Weber and Marx and the earlier critical theorists, while moving substantially on from all of them.
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