Jürgen Habermas's two-volume systematic work developing the theory of communicative action as the foundation for critical theory and social rationality.
Distinguishes communicative from strategic action; locates a non-instrumental rationality in the pragmatics of communication; analyzes the colonization of the lifeworld by economic and administrative systems; provides the foundation for discourse ethics and deliberative democracy.
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