Between reason and history : Habermas and the idea of progress /

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Author / Creator:	Owen, David S.
Imprint:	Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2002.
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 220 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	SUNY series in the philosophy of the social sciences SUNY series in the philosophy of the social sciences.
Subject:	Habermas, Jürgen. Habermas, Jürgen. Progress -- Philosophy. Progress -- Philosophy. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11127059

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ISBN:	0585476144 9780585476148 0791454096 9780791454091 079145410X 9780791454107 9780791488478 0791488470
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Annotation Jurgen Habermas's The Theory of Communicative Action attempts to clarify a normative foundation of a critical theory and is widely recognized as such, but according to Owen (philosophy, Hamline U.) not enough attention is paid to the theory of social evolution it contains. He summarizes and explains the theory, situating in the context of Habermas's wider theory and within the wider field of critical theory itself. The theory insists that there is a universal of societal development that must be distinguished from the contingencies of the historical process. This societal development is understood to occur when societies evolve to higher levels through a process in which learning occurs with respect to the society's normative structures and it occurs according to a certain pattern that can be reconstructed in terms of a developmental logic. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Other form:	Print version: Owen, David S. Between reason and history. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2002 0791454096 079145410X

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