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Author:   Jürgen Habermas (Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Polity Press
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.10cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.60cm
Weight:   0.340kg
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9780745632193

ISBN 10:   074563219
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   10 August 2003
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Translator's Introduction vii Reflections on the Linguistic Foundation of Sociology: The Christian Gauss Lecture (Princeton University, February-March 1971) 1 I Objectivist and Subjectivist Approaches to Theory Formation in the Social Sciences 3 II The Phenomenological Constitutive Theory of Society: The Fundamental Role of Claims to Validity and the Monadological Foundations of Intersubjectivity 23 III From a Constitutive Theory to a Communicative Theory of Society (Sellars and Wittgenstein): Communicative and Cognitive Uses of Language 45 IV Universal Pragmatics: Reflections on a Theory of Communicative Competence 67 V Truth and Society: The Discursive Redemption of Factual Claims to Validity 85 Intentions, Conventions, and Linguistic Interactions (1976) 105 Reflections on Communicative Pathology (1974) 129 Notes 171 Index 183

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Jürgen Habermas is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt.

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