The Theory of Communicative Action

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The Theory of Communicative Action is Jürgen Habermas’s major two-volume work of social theory that develops a comprehensive account of rational communication as the basis for understanding society, democracy, and modernity.

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instanceOf book
philosophical work
work of social theory
aimsTo ground democracy in rational communication
provide a comprehensive theory of society based on communication
author Jürgen Habermas
centralThesis modern societies are characterized by tensions between lifeworld and system
social integration is achieved through communicative action oriented toward mutual understanding
countryOfOrigin Germany
criticizes functionalism in sociology
instrumental rationality
field critical theory
philosophy of language
political philosophy
social theory
sociology
hasPart analysis of modernity
critique of functionalist reason
reconstruction of social action theory
theory of communicative rationality
influencedBy Frankfurt School
George Herbert Mead
J. L. Austin
Karl Marx
Karl-Otto Apel
linked to: Rainer Forst

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Max Weber
Talcott Parsons
Émile Durkheim
language German
mainConcept colonization of the lifeworld
communicative action
communicative rationality
discourse ethics
ideal speech situation
lifeworld
system
validity claims
originalTitle Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns
publicationForm two-volume work
publicationYear 1981
publisher Suhrkamp Verlag
relatedWork Between Facts and Norms
Knowledge and Human Interests
theoreticalOrientation critical theory of society
neo-Kantian
linked to: Neo-Kantianism

post-Marxist
volume Volume 1: Reason and the Rationalization of Society
Volume 2: Lifeworld and System: A Critique of Functionalist Reason

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Jürgen Habermas notableWork The Theory of Communicative Action
Jürgen Habermas notableWork Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action
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The Theory of Communicative Action originalTitle Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns
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The Theory of Communicative Action volume Volume 2: Lifeworld and System: A Critique of Functionalist Reason
linked to: The Theory of Communicative Action
Between Facts and Norms follows The Theory of Communicative Action
Thomas McCarthy translatedWork The Theory of Communicative Action