Between reason and history : Habermas and the idea of progress

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Main Author: Owen, David S.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2002.
Series:SUNY series in the philosophy of the social sciences.
Subjects:
Habermas, Jürgen.
Progress > Philosophy.
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Table of Contents:
  • BETWEEN REASON AND HISTORY
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Idea of Progress and Critical Social Theory
  • Critical Social Theory
  • Critical Hermeneutics
  • Summary
  • 2. Habermas's Conception of Critical Social Theory
  • Formal Pragmatics
  • Communicative Action
  • Sociocultural Lifeworld
  • Communicative Rationality
  • The Developmental Theory of Social Evolution
  • Habermas' s Reconstruction of Historical Materialism
  • Overview of the Mature Theory
  • The Theory of Modernity
  • Summary
  • 3. The Developmental Theory of Social Evolution.
  • General Considerations
  • Conceptual and Theoretical Distinctions
  • Epistemological Assumptions
  • Principal Elements
  • The Dimensions of Development
  • Rationalization
  • The Dynamic between Interaction and Labor
  • Developmental Logic and Empirical Mechanisms
  • Social Evolution as a Learning Process
  • 4. The Idea of a Developmental Logic of History
  • The Concept of Developmental Logic
  • The Psychological-Theoretic Conception
  • Formal Properties
  • The Social-Theoretic Conception
  • The Developmental Logic Thesis
  • The Homological Arguments
  • The Formal-Pragmatic Argument.
  • Further Questions
  • 5. Progress and Social Evolution
  • Habermas' s Conception of Progress
  • The Dialectic of Progress
  • A Differentiated Conception of Progress
  • Summary and Conclusions
  • Notes
  • Notes to Introduction
  • Notes to Chapter 1
  • Notes to Chapter 2
  • Notes to Chapter 3
  • Notes to Chapter 4
  • Notes to Chapter 5
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Q
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
  • V
  • W
  • Z.

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