Language and Reason: A Study of Habermas's Pragmatics - Couverture rigide

Cooke, Maeve

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0262032171 ISBN 13 : 9780262032179

Editeur : The MIT Press, 1994

Synopsis

Language and Reason opens up new territory for social theorists by providing the first general introduction to Habermas's program of formal pragmatics: his reconstruction of the universal principles of possible understanding that, he argues, are already operative in everyday communicative practices.

Readers of Jürgen Habermas's Theory of Communicative Action and his later social theory know that the idea of communicative rationality is central to his version of critical theory. Language and Reason opens up new territory for social theorists by providing the first general introduction to Habermas's program of formal pragmatics: his reconstruction of the universal principles of possible understanding that, he argues, are already operative in everyday communicative practices. Philosophers of language will discover surprising and fruitful connections between Habermas's account of language and validity (especially his theory of meaning) and their own concerns.

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À propos de l?auteur

Maeve Cooke is Associate Professor of German Social and Political Thought at University College Dublin. She is the author of Language and Reason: A Study of Habermas's Pragmatics (MIT Press, 1994) and editor of On the Pragmatics of Communication (MIT Press, 1998), a collection of essays by Jürgen Habermas.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The MIT Press
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0262032171
• ISBN 13: 9780262032179
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 225
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• Personne responsable: non disponible