Owen Between Reason and History

Habermas and the Idea of Progress
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8847-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences

The first book-length treatment in English of Habermas’s theory of social evolution and progress.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Owen, David S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Idea of Progress and Critical Social Theory Critical Social Theory
Critical Hermeneutics
Summary 2. 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
Summary 3. The Development Theory of Social Evolution General Considerations Conceptual and Theoretical Distinctions
Epistemological Assumptions Principal Elements The Dimenions of Development
Rationalization
The Dynamic between Interaction and Labor
Development Logic and Empirical Mechanisms
Social Evolution as a Learning Process 4. The Idea of a Development 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 5. Progress and Social Evolution Habermas's Conception of Progress
The Dialectic of Progress
A Differentiated Conception of Progress
Summary and Conclusions Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

David S. Owen is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Hamline University.