Readers of Juergen Habermas's "Theory of Communicative Action" and his later social theory know that the idea of communicative rationality is central to his version of critical theory. This text provides a general introduction to Habermas's programme of formal pragmatics - his reconstruction of the universal principles of possible understanding that, he argues, operate in everyday communicative practices. Philosophers of language should discover connections between Habermas's account of language and validity (especially his theory of meaning) and their own concerns. This work introduces the theory of communicative action as the background against which the programme of formal pragmatics must be understood. It then outlines the idea of communicative rationality as a postmetaphysical yet nondefeatist conception of reason. Two central chapters detail the connections Habermas asserts between language and validity, with particular attention to his theory of validity claims and his pragmatic theory of meaning. A final chapter looks at Habermas's account of the pathologies of modern society and at communicative rationality as a yardstick for measuring these pathologies.
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Maeve Cooke is Associate Professor of German Social and Political Thought at University College Dublin. She is the author of Language and Reason: A Study of Habermas's Pragmatics (MIT Press, 1994) and editor of On the Pragmatics of Communication (MIT Press, 1998), a collection of essays by Jurgen Habermas.
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- The Theory of Communicative Action: Lifeworld and Systems, a Critique of Functionalist Reason, Volume 2 by Jurgen Habermas (Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt); Translated by: Thomas McCarthy (Northwestern University) on 21 pages
- Postmetaphysical Thinking (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) by Jürgen Habermas on 11 pages
- Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action: Moral Conciousness and Communicative Action (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) by Jürgen Habermas on 9 pages
- Habermas and Modernity by Richard J. Bernstein on 8 pages
- Communicative Action: Essays on Jürgen Habermas's The Theory of Communicative Action (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) by Axel Honneth on 7 pages
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- Habermas: A Critical Reader (Blackwell Critical Reader) by Peter Dews on 4 pages
- The Handbook of Critical Theory by David Rasmussen on page 186, and page 406
- The Moral Limits of Law: Obedience, Respect, and Legitimacy by Ruth C. A. Higgins in Back Matter
- Philosophy of Religion in the 21st Century (Claremont Studies in the Philosophy of Religion) by D. Z. Phillips in Front Matter
- Modern Philosophy of Language by Maria Baghramian in Front Matter
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