Toward a Rational Society: Student Protest Science and Politics - Hardcover

Habermas, Jurgen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807041769 ISBN 13: 9780807041765

Publisher: Polity Press, 1989

Synopsis

Universities must transmit technically exploitable knowledge. That is, they must meet an industrial society′s need for qualified new generations and at the same time be concerned with the expanded reproduction of education itself. In addition, universities must not only transmit technically exploitable knowledge, but also produce it. This includes both information flowing from research into the channels of industrial utilization, armament, and social welfare, and advisory knowledge that enters into strategies of administration, government, and other decision–making powers, such as private enterprises. Thus, through instruction and research the university is immediately connected with functions of the economic process.

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Review

"It is not altogether easy to assess the work of a scholar whose professional competence extends from the logic of science to the sociology of knowledge, by way of Marx, Hegel, and the more recondite sources of the European metaphysical tradition ... The baffling thing about Habmermas is that, in an age when most of his colleagues had painfully established control over one corner of the field, he has made himself the master of the whole, in depth and breadth alike." - Times Literary Supplement

About the Author

Jurgen Habermas (born June 18, 1929) is a German sociologist and philosopher in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism.

Edition details

• Publisher: Polity Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0807041769
• ISBN 13: 9780807041765
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English