On the Pragmatics of Social Interaction by Jurgen Habermas

On the Pragmatics of Social Interaction by Jurgen Habermas

In 1971 Jurgen Habermas delivered the Gauss Lectures at Princeton University. These pivotal lectures, entitled Reflections on the Linguistic Foundation of Sociology, anticipate The Theory of Communicative Action and offer an excellent introduction to it. They show why Habermas considers the linguistic turn in social philosophy to be necessary and contain the first formulation of formal pragmatics, including an important discussion of truth. In these lectures and two additional essays, Habermas outlines an intersubjective approach to social theory that takes the concepts of meaning and communication to be central. In doing so, he situates his project relative to other influential accounts of how meaning is constituted, in particular those of Edmund Husserl, Wilfrid Sellars, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. He examines the nature of social interaction and its connection to communication, developing a linguistic conception of convention and intentionality. He also offers an account of social and individual pathologies using the concept of systematically distorted communication. Taken together, these analyses contribute significantly to current debates in the philosophy of action and language.

Jurgen Habermas is one of the best-known and most influential philosophers in Europe today. Steven Rendall is a professor in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Oregon. He is the author of Distinguo: Reading Montaigne Differently and the translator of Marlis Steinert's Hitler. Peter Uwe Hohendahl, Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Cornell University, is the author of Building a National Literature: The Case of Germany, 1830-1870 and the editor of A History of German Literary Criticism, 1730-1980 (Nebraska 1988).

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ISBN 13	9780262582131
ISBN 10	0262582139
Title	On the Pragmatics of Social Interaction
Author	Jurgen Habermas
Series	Studies In Contemporary German Social Thought
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	MIT Press Ltd
Year published	2002-01-25
Number of pages	216
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