Between reason and history

Titel: Between reason and history : Habermas and the idea of progress / David S. Owen
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Veröffentlicht: Albany : State Univ. of New York Press, 2002
Umfang: XI, 220 S.
Format: E-Book
Sprache: Englisch
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mehrbändiges Werk:
SUNY series in the philosophy of the social sciences
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Vorliegende Ausgabe: Online-Ausg.: 2003. - Online-Ressource.
ISBN: 9780585476148 (Sekundärausgabe)
  • Acknowledgments
  • p. ix
  • Abbreviations
  • p. xi
  • Introduction
  • p. 1
  • 1.
  • The Idea of Progress and Critical Social Theory
  • p. 7
  • Critical Social Theory
  • p. 7
  • Critical Hermeneutics
  • p. 24
  • Summary
  • p. 29
  • 2.
  • Habermas's Conception of Critical Social Theory
  • p. 31
  • Formal Pragmatics
  • p. 33
  • Communicative Action
  • p. 35
  • Sociocultural Lifeworld
  • p. 44
  • Communicative Rationality
  • p. 47
  • The Developmental Theory of Social Evolution
  • p. 51
  • Habermas's Reconstruction of Historical Materialism
  • p. 52
  • Overview of the Mature Theory
  • p. 62
  • The Theory of Modernity
  • p. 65
  • Summary
  • p. 71
  • 3.
  • The Developmental Theory of Social Evolution
  • p. 73
  • General Considerations
  • p. 73
  • Conceptual and Theoretical Distinctions
  • p. 74
  • Epistemological Assumptions
  • p. 79
  • Principal Elements
  • p. 82
  • The Dimensions of Development
  • p. 82
  • Rationalization
  • p. 87
  • The Dynamic between Interaction and Labor
  • p. 90
  • Developmental Logic and Empirical Mechanisms
  • p. 95
  • Social Evolution as a Learning Process
  • p. 102
  • 4.
  • The Idea of a Developmental Logic of History
  • p. 105
  • The Concept of Developmental Logic
  • p. 107
  • The Psychological-Theoretic Conception
  • p. 107
  • Formal Properties
  • p. 111
  • The Social-Theoretic Conception
  • p. 122
  • The Developmental Logic Thesis
  • p. 130
  • The Homological Arguments
  • p. 131
  • The Formal-Pragmatic Argument
  • p. 157
  • Further Questions
  • p. 164
  • 5.
  • Progress and Social Evolution
  • p. 173
  • Habermas's Conception of Progress
  • p. 174
  • The Dialectic of Progress
  • p. 179
  • A Differentiated Conception of Progress
  • p. 183
  • Summary and Conclusions
  • p. 186
  • Notes
  • p. 189
  • Bibliography
  • p. 207
  • Index
  • p. 213