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Original Language: German --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Hans Joas is one of the foremost social theorists in Germany today. Based on Joas’s celebrated study of George Herbert Mead, this work reevaluates the contribution of American pragmatism and European philosophical anthropology to theories of action in the social sciences. Joas also establishes direct ties between Mead’s work and approaches drawn from German traditions of philosophical anthropology.
Joas argues for adding a third model of action to the two predominant models of rational and normative action—one that emphasizes the creative character of human action. This model encompasses the other two, allowing for a more comprehensive theory of action. Joas elaborates some implications of his model for theories of social movements and social change and for the status of action theory in sociology in the face of competition from theories advanced by Luhmann and Habermas.
The problem of action is of crucial importance in both sociology and philosophy, and this book—already widely debated in Germany—will add fresh impetus to the lively discussions current in the English-speaking world.
Joas argues for adding a third model of action to the two predominant models of rational and normative action—one that emphasizes the creative character of human action. This model encompasses the other two, allowing for a more comprehensive theory of action. Joas elaborates some implications of his model for theories of social movements and social change and for the status of action theory in sociology in the face of competition from theories advanced by Luhmann and Habermas.
The problem of action is of crucial importance in both sociology and philosophy, and this book—already widely debated in Germany—will add fresh impetus to the lively discussions current in the English-speaking world.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Max Weber, United States, The Structure of Social Action, John Dewey, Chicago School, George Herbert Mead, Talcott Parsons, Jeffrey Alexander, Georg Simmel, Jürgen Habermas, Niklas Luhmann, Adam Smith, Alain Touraine, Anthony Giddens, First World War, Second World War, Charles Taylor, Eighteenth Brumaire, Alfred Schütz, Charles Sanders Peirce, Jean Piaget, Johann Gottfried Herder, Karl Marx New!
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'Action' is a key concept in philosophy and almost all the social and cultural sciences today; efforts to construct a 'theory of action' meet with especial interest in all these fields. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
expressivist anthropology, reconstructive introduction, causalistic interpretation, sociological action theory, integrated creativity, secondary creativity, analytical realism, differentiation theory, body schema, production paradigm, convergence thesis, expressivist theory, constitution theories, classical sociologists Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Max Weber, United States, The Structure of Social Action, John Dewey, Chicago School, George Herbert Mead, Talcott Parsons, Jeffrey Alexander, Georg Simmel, Jürgen Habermas, Niklas Luhmann, Adam Smith, Alain Touraine, Anthony Giddens, First World War, Second World War, Charles Taylor, Eighteenth Brumaire, Alfred Schütz, Charles Sanders Peirce, Jean Piaget, Johann Gottfried Herder, Karl Marx New!
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- The Theory of Communicative Action: Critique of Functionalist Reason v. 2 by Jurgen Habermas on 11 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
- Karl Marx: His Life and Environment, Fourth Edition by Sir Isaiah Berlin on 7 pages
- Experience and Nature by John Dewey on 6 pages
- Collective Behavior by Ralph H. Turner on 5 pages
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- The Genesis of Values by Hans Joas on 19 pages
- War and Modernity: Studies in the History of Vilolence in the 20th Century by Hans Joas on 5 pages
- The Revival of Pragmatism: New Essays on Social Thought, Law, and Culture (Post-Contemporary Interventions) by Morris Dickstein on 4 pages
- A Companion to Pragmatism (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy) by John R. Shook on page 323, page 327, and page 334
- Technology as Experience by John McCarthy on page 68, and Back Matter
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