Habermas's Critical Theory of Society
This book provides an understanding of the content and aims of Habermas's critical theory of society — the theory that analyzes the causes of our cultural lack of direction, polical apathy, and the increasing complexity of modern society. The author offers a foothold on the current debates regarding the credibility and cogency of the theory.

Braaten presents Habermas's defense of his critique of reason in his most recent work concerning the confrontation between postmodernists and neoconservatives, and modernists and liberal theorists. She also explores the possibility of applying Habermas's critical resources in the United States in ways that he himself may not have considered.
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Habermas's Critical Theory of Society
This book provides an understanding of the content and aims of Habermas's critical theory of society — the theory that analyzes the causes of our cultural lack of direction, polical apathy, and the increasing complexity of modern society. The author offers a foothold on the current debates regarding the credibility and cogency of the theory.

Braaten presents Habermas's defense of his critique of reason in his most recent work concerning the confrontation between postmodernists and neoconservatives, and modernists and liberal theorists. She also explores the possibility of applying Habermas's critical resources in the United States in ways that he himself may not have considered.
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Habermas's Critical Theory of Society

Habermas's Critical Theory of Society

by Jane Braaten
Habermas's Critical Theory of Society

Habermas's Critical Theory of Society

by Jane Braaten

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This book provides an understanding of the content and aims of Habermas's critical theory of society — the theory that analyzes the causes of our cultural lack of direction, polical apathy, and the increasing complexity of modern society. The author offers a foothold on the current debates regarding the credibility and cogency of the theory.

Braaten presents Habermas's defense of his critique of reason in his most recent work concerning the confrontation between postmodernists and neoconservatives, and modernists and liberal theorists. She also explores the possibility of applying Habermas's critical resources in the United States in ways that he himself may not have considered.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780791407608
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 09/19/1991
Series: SUNY series in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Pages: 202
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Jane Braaten is Assistant Professor at Hampshire College and Mt. Holyoke College.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1. An Outline of Habermas's Critical Theory

2. A Consensus Theory of Truth and Knowledge

The Meaning of 'Truth"
A Problem

3. A Consensus Theory of Normative Validity

Discursive Will Formation and Need Interpretation
Generalizable Interests and the Principle of Univeralization
Justifying the Principle of Universalization

4. The Theory of Communicative Competence

Aesthetic-Expressive Rationality
Communicative Action and Communicative Rationality
Formal Pragmatics: An Overview
Does Communicative Competence Entail an Interest in Reaching Understanding
Communicative Rationality Again

5. The Critique of Societal Rationalization

The Lifeworld and the Method of Understanding
The System and Functional Explanation
The Critique of Modern Society
Methodological Issues

6. Two Challenges: Positivism and Postmodernism

Habermas and the Legacy of Positivism
The Defense of Modernism

7. Critical Applications of the Theory

The End of Public Debate: The Mass Media
The Politics of Need Interpretation and the Welfare System
Social Psychology as Social Ignorance: A Critical Approach to Social Psychology
Concluding Remarks

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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