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Between reason and history : Habermas and the idea of progress

Title
Between reason and history : Habermas and the idea of progress / David S. Owen.
Author
Owen, David S.
Publication
Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2002.

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Description
xi, 220 pages; 23 cm.
Series Statement
SUNY series in the philosophy of the social sciences
Uniform Title
SUNY series in the philosophy of the social sciences
Subject
  • Habermas, Jürgen
  • Habermas, Jürgen
  • Habermas, Jürgen 1929-
  • Habermas, Jürgen, (1929- ...)
  • Progress > Philosophy
  • Fortschritt
  • Kritische Theorie
  • Progrès > Philosophie
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-212) and index.
Contents
The Idea of Progress and Critical Social Theory -- Critical Social Theory -- Critical Hermeneutics -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Progress and Social Evolution -- Habermas's Conception of Progress -- The Dialectic of Progress -- A Differentiated Conception of Progress.
ISBN
  • 0791454096
  • 9780791454091
  • 079145410X
  • 9780791454107
LCCN
2001049779
OCLC
  • ocm48053832
  • 48053832
  • SCSB-8805956
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library