Toward a Rational Society: Student Protest, Science, and Politics - Softcover

Habermas, Juergen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807041777 ISBN 13: 9780807041772

Publisher: Beacon Press, 1971

Synopsis

Toward a Rational Society Knowledge, communication, action - These are the concepts central to all of Habermas's thought. As a philosopher, he is concerned with the rational connections of these concepts. As a sociologist, he is prepared to analyze with care the distortions of human interactions caused by existing social and political institutions. In a series of connected essays, the author assesses the function of the c... Full description

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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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Publication date: 1971
• ISBN 10: 0807041777
• ISBN 13: 9780807041772
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 142