Habermas On the Pragmatics of Social Interaction

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-7456-9443-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
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The core of this book is a set of five lectures delivered byHabermas at Princeton in 1971 under the title 'Reflections on theLinguistic Foundation of Sociology'. These lectures offer apreliminary view of what would become The Theory ofCommunicative Action, and they form an excellent introductionto Habermas's ideas about communication and society. They lay outthe general parameters of Habermas's project in an accessible way,and situate his work in relation to other theories of society,particularly those of Edmund Husserl, Wilfrid Sellars, and LudwigWittgenstein.
Two additional essays elaborating the themes of the lectures arealso included in this volume. 'Intentions, Conventions, andLinguistic Interactions' is an essay in the philosophy of actionthat focuses on the validity of social norms and examines theconceptual connections between rules, conventions, norm-governedaction, and intentionality. 'Reflections on CommunicativePathology' addresses the question of deviant processes ofsocialization and contains an analysis of the formal conditions ofsystematically distorted communication.
This book was designed as a companion to On the Pragmatics ofCommunication (1998), which took pieces from Habermas's laterwork to create a systematic introduction to his theory of formalpragmatics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Habermas, Jürgen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Translator's Introduction vii
Reflections on the Linguistic Foundation of Sociology: The Christian Gauss Lecture (Princeton University, February-March 1971) 1
I Objectivist and Subjectivist Approaches to Theory Formation in the Social Sciences 3
II The Phenomenological Constitutive Theory of Society: The Fundamental Role of Claims to Validity and the Monadological Foundations of Intersubjectivity 23
III From a Constitutive Theory to a Communicative Theory of Society (Sellars and Wittgenstein): Communicative and Cognitive Uses of Language 45
IV Universal Pragmatics: Reflections on a Theory of Communicative Competence 67
V Truth and Society: The Discursive Redemption of Factual Claims to Validity 85
Intentions, Conventions, and Linguistic Interactions (1976) 105
Reflections on Communicative Pathology (1974) 129
Notes 171
Index 183