Klik op een omslag om naar Google Boeken te gaan.
Bezig met laden... Communication and the Evolution of Societydoor Jurgen Habermas
Geen Bezig met laden...
Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
In this important volume Habermas outlines the views which form the basis of his critical theory of modern societies. The volume comprises five interlocking essays, which together define the contours of his theory of communication and of his substantive account of social change. 'What is Universal Pragmatics?' is the best available statement of Habermas's programme for a theoryof communication based on the analysis of speech acts. In the following two essays Habermas draws on the work of Kohlberg and others to develop a distinctive account of moral consciousness and normative structures. 'Toward a Reconstruction of historical Materialsim' takes these issues further, offering a wide-ranging reconstruction of Marx's historical materialsim understood as a theory of social evolution. The final essay focuses on the question of legitimacy and on the legitimation problems faced by modern states. This book is essential reading for anyone concerned with the key questions of social and political theory today. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
Actuele discussiesGeenPopulaire omslagen
Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)301.14Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Sociology and anthropology Formerly: Social psychology Communication TheoryLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
Ben jij dit?Word een LibraryThing Auteur. |
Easily the best essay is the last one on the welfare state; it might even be more timely now, post GFC, than in the late seventies when it was first published. Basically, he argues that the state takes on the role of guardian for both the economy and the population. If the economy fails, the state loses face; if the population feels the bad effects of a growing economy, the state loses face. More or less, it's a lose lose game for the modern state. The stuff on historical materialism is terrible, as you might expect when someone's trying to theoretically describe not only the shift from pre-modern to modern societies (interesting, possibly doable) but also the shift from pre-human to human societies (not going to happen.) The essay on cognitive development is almost as absurd. And the first essay, on speech act theory and Habermas' 'universal pragmatics' shows us why Habermas will go down in history as the single worst theoretician of the twentieth century as far as displaying his own views goes: he takes an easy to understand, interesting theory (speech act theory) and tweaks it in an easy to understand, interesting way (insisting on the importance of illocutionary force outside of institutional bounds)... but takes 70 pages to do so, and makes the whole thing seem like a mess. Too bad. Anyway, read this rather than his massive tomes. The introduction by McCarthy, too, is excellent. ( )