Toward a Rational Society: Student Protest, Science, and Politics - Couverture souple

Habermas, Juergen

 
9780807041772: Toward a Rational Society: Student Protest, Science, and Politics
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0807041777 ISBN 13 : 9780807041772
Editeur : Beacon Press, 1971

Synopsis

Knowledge, communication, action – These are the concepts central to all of Habermas's thought. As a philosopher, he is concerned with the rational connections of these concepts. As a sociologist, he is prepared to analyze with care the distortions of human interactions caused by existing social and political institutions. 
In a series of connected essays, the author assesses the function of the contemporary university, and sharply analyzes contemporary students and their political efforts.
He then brilliantly analyzes as a communications model the relationships between research institutes and the political agencies which employ them. The book concludes with a complex discussion of technology and science as an "ideology," dedicated to Herbert Marcuse.
Critical parts of Marcuse's thought, Habermas dissects contemporary democratic dialogue and offers an important preliminary sketch of a general theory of social evolution. 
He analyzes the difference between the technological sphere of control and the practical sphere of communication and interaction as the basic feature of human social life, and explains how and why the predominance of the technological sphere is the distinguishing and alienating characteristic of advanced industrial society. The concepts of depoliticization and the freeing of communication emerge as the crux of today's political situation.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jürgen Habermas (born June 18, 1929) is a German sociologist and philosopher in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism.

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Éditeur
Beacon Press
Date d'édition
1971
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0807041777
ISBN 13 
9780807041772
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
142
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780435823818: Toward a Rational Society: Student Protest, Science, and Politics

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0435823817 ISBN 13 :  9780435823818
Editeur : Polity Press, 1986
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