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The Theory of Communicative Action

This article is about a work by Jürgen Habermas. For the philosophical concept of "Communicative Action", see Communicative action.
The Theory of Communicative Action
Cover of the German edition
AuthorJürgen Habermas
Original titleTheorie des kommunikativen Handelns
TranslatorThomas McCarthy
LanguageGerman
SubjectCommunicative action
Published1981
Publication placeGermany
Media typePrint
Pages465 (English edition, vol. 1)
457 (English edition, vol. 2)
ISBN0-8070-1507-5 (English edition, vol. 1)
0-8070-1401-x (English edition, vol. 2)
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The Theory of Communicative Action (German: Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns) is a two-volume 1981 book by the philosopher Jürgen Habermas, in which the author continues his project of finding a way to ground "the social sciences in a theory of language",[1] which had been set out in On the Logic of the Social Sciences (1967).[1][2] The two volumes are Reason and the Rationalization of Society (Handlungsrationalität und gesellschaftliche Rationalisierung),[3] in which Habermas establishes a concept of communicative rationality,[4] and Lifeworld and System: A Critique of Functionalist Reason (Zur Kritik der funktionalistischen Vernunft),[5] in which Habermas creates the two level concept of society and lays out the critical theory for modernity.[4]

After writing The Theory of Communicative Action, Habermas expanded upon the theory of communicative action by using it as the basis of his theory of morality, democracy, and law.[6] The work has inspired many responses by social theorists and philosophers, and in 1998 was listed by the International Sociological Association as the eighth most important sociological book of the 20th century.[7]

  1. ^ a b Habermas 1988, p. xiv.
  2. ^ Habermas 1984, p. xxxix.
  3. ^ Habermas 1984.
  4. ^ a b McCarthy 1984, p. vi.
  5. ^ Habermas 1987.
  6. ^ Fultner 2011, p. 54.
  7. ^ "ISA - International Sociological Association: Books of the Century". International Sociological Association. 1998. Archived from the original on 2014-03-15. Retrieved 2012-07-25.

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