Language and Reason: A Study of Habermas's Pragmatics (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)

Cooke, Maeve

ISBN 10: 0262032171 / ISBN 13: 9780262032179

Published by The MIT Press, 1994

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1994 MIT 1st edition, Fine/Fine DJ in Mylar, dustjacket in great shape- in new Mylar, clean & bright, square corners, embossed initial stamp on endpaper, no markings found, not a remainder, a very nice copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Language and Reason: A Study of Habermas's Pragmatics (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262032171
• ISBN 13: 9780262032179
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophy

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Synopsis

Readers of Jürgen Habermas's Theory of Communicative Action and his later social theory know that the idea of communicative rationality is central to his version of critical theory. Language and Reason opens up new territory for social theorists by providing the first general introduction to Habermas's program of formal pragmatics: his reconstruction of the universal principles of possible understanding that, he argues, are already operative in everyday communicative practices. Philosophers of language will discover surprising and fruitful connections between Habermas's account of language and validity (especially his theory of meaning) and their own concerns.

About the Author

Maeve Cooke is Associate Professor of German Social and Political Thought at University College Dublin. She is the author of Language and Reason: A Study of Habermas's Pragmatics (MIT Press, 1994) and editor of On the Pragmatics of Communication (MIT Press, 1998), a collection of essays by Jürgen Habermas.