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Language & Reason – A Study of Habermas′s Pragmatics (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) - Softcover

Book 47 of 69: Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought

Cooke, Meave

 
9780262531450: Language & Reason – A Study of Habermas′s Pragmatics (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)

Synopsis

Readers of Jürgen 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. Language and Reason opens up new territory for social theorists by providing the first general introduction to Habermas's program of formal pragmatics: his reconstruction of the universal principles of possible understanding that, he argues, are already operative in everyday communicative practices. Philosophers of language will discover surprising and fruitful connections between Habermas's account of language and validity (especially his theory of meaning) and their own concerns.

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About the Author

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 Jürgen Habermas.

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