The Theory of Communicative Action
work by Habermas
Also known as: “Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns”
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discussed in biography
- In Jürgen Habermas: Philosophy and social theory of Jürgen Habermas
…Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns (1981; The Theory of Communicative Action). Drawing on the work of analytic (Anglo-American) philosophers (e.g., Ludwig Wittgenstein and J.L. Austin), Continental philosophers (Horkheimer, Adorno, Edmund Husserl, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Alfred Schutz, and György
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history of Western philosophy
- In Western philosophy: Recent trends
Habermas’s The Theory of Communicative Action (1981) was devoted in part to developing an account of truth in terms that did not imply that there exists an “absolute” truth of the kind traditionally posited by metaphysics. Following the doctrines of pragmatism and reinterpreting Austin’s earlier work…
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