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The Theory of Communicative Action

Disciplines:
philosophy/philosophy of language
philosophy/social philosophy
philosophy/critical theory

Summary

Jürgen Habermas's two-volume systematic work developing the theory of communicative action as the foundation for critical theory and social rationality.

Core Contribution

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.

Historical Influences

Jürgen Habermas

Intellectual Lineage

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Allied Works

Dialectic of Enlightenment A Theory of Justice Disagreement

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