The Theory of Communicative Action, Vol 2: Lifeworld & System: A Critique of Functionalist Reason by Jürgen Habermas, Thomas A. McCarthy

The Theory of Communicative Action, Vol 2: Lifeworld & System: A Critique of Functionalist Reason

The Theory of Communicative Action

Jürgen Habermas, Thomas A. McCarthy

464 pages • first pub 1981 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy sociology challenging informative medium-paced
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Juergen Habermas opens Volume 2 with a brilliant reinterpretation of Mead and Durkheim and then develops his own approach to society, combining two hitherto competing paradigms, "system" and "lifeworld." The strength of this combination is then de...

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