Communicative Reason

A Sociological Restatement
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-367-18293-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 330 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 640 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

The book examines philosophical and sociological approaches within critical theory and more widely from the vantage point of communicative reason. It seeks to revitalize the sociological dimension of critical theory by advancing a critical sociology of reason. It does so fully in the knowledge that reason is a contentious concept in sociology and other disciplines. Nonetheless, building on Habermas’s original insight, it argues that an extensively modified version of communicative reason is indispensable. This modified approach will draw extensively from Peirce’s pragmatist semiotics and critical cognitive sociology. Such a focus has significant implications for meta-theoretical, theoretical-empirical, and methodological approaches in critical theory, critical sociology, and related disciplines. This book will be of interest to readers in the social sciences, humanities, and philosophy who value the importance of a social theory of a reasonable society for their disciplines and for increasingly essential interdisciplinary activities. The book will also appeal to many in critical theory and beyond who are interested in the cognitive foundations of normative orders, including unjust or pathological as well as actually or potentially just foundations. The book emphasizes both validity and critique within communicative reason and critical theory and accordingly presents a distinctive perspective on critical-reconstructive research.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Mahony, Patrick

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Preface

 

Introduction

Chapter 1: Habermas, Communicative Reason, and the Social Sciences

Chapter 2: Sociology and Reason: General Considerations

Chapter 3: Reason and the Reflexive Turn in Sociology

Chapter 4: The State of Reason in Sociology

Chapter 5: Peirce, Reason, and Signification

Chapter 6: Reasoning and Schemata in a Societal Frame

Chapter 7: Towards a Sign-Mediated Societal Ontology

Chapter 8: Reason, Communication, and Validity

Chapter 9: Validity, Schemata, and Reasoning on Moral-Political Issues

Chapter 10: Reasoning and Validity Standards

Chapter 11: Reason and Critique

Chapter 12: Critique and Reasoning Pathologies

 

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Patrick O’Mahony, Department of Sociology and Criminology, University College, Cork, Ireland, is the author of The Contemporary Theory of the Public Sphere, the editor of Nature, Risk and Responsibility: Discourses of Biotechnology, the co-author of Rethinking Irish History: Nationalism, Identity and Ideology and Nationalism and Social Theory, co-editor of Irish Environmental Politics after the Communicative Turn, and guest editor of the Special Issue on The Critical Theory of Society for the European Journal of Social Theory (2023).