Lifeworld and system : a critique of functionalist reason

Jürgen Habermas ; translated by Thomas McCarthy

This study offers a systematic reconstruction of the theoretical foundations and framework of critical social theory. It is Habermas' "magnum opus", and it is regarded as one of the most important works of modern social thought. In this second and final volume of the work, Habermas examines the relations between action concepts and systems theory and elaborates a framework for analyzing the developmental tendencies of modern societies. He discusses in detail the work of Marx, Durkheim, G.H. Mead and Talcott Parsons, among others. By distinguishing between social systems and what he calls the "life-world", Habermas is able to analyze the ways in which the development of social systems impinges upon the symbolic and subjective dimensions of social life, resulting in the kind of crises, conflicts and protest movements which are characteristic of advanced capitalist societies in the late-20th century.

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[目次]

  • Part 5 The paradigm shift in Mead and Durkheim: from purposive activity to communicative action
  • the foundations of social science in the theory of communication
  • the authority of the sacred and the normative background of communicative action
  • the rational structure of the linguistification of the sacred. Part 6 Intermediate reflections: system and lifeworld
  • the concept of the lifeworld and the hermeneutic idealism of interpretive sociology
  • the uncoupling of system and lifeworld. Part 7 Talcott Parsons: problems in constructing a theory of society
  • from a normativistic theory of action to a systems theory of society
  • the develpment of systems theory
  • the theory of modernity. Part 8 Concluding reflections - from Parsons via Weber to Marx: a backward glance - Weber's theory of modernity
  • Marx and the thesis of internal colonization
  • the tasks of a critical theory of society.

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書名 Lifeworld and system : a critique of functionalist reason
著作者等 Habermas, Jürgen
McCarthy, Thomas
Habermas Jurgen
書名別名 Zur Kritik der funktionalistischen Vernunft
シリーズ名 The theory of communicative action
出版元 Polity Press
刊行年月 1989, c1987
版表示 New ed
ページ数 457 p.
大きさ 23 cm
ISBN 0745607705
NCID BA11535717
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言語 英語
原文言語 ドイツ語
出版国 イギリス
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