Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS ix
3. Preface xi
4. 1. The Historical Foundations of the Theory of Communicative Action 1
5. 2. Rationality, Reality, and Action 19
6. 3. Understanding and Language 32
7. 4. Weber's Theory of Rationalization 43
8. 5. From Lukacs to Adorno: Rationalization as Reification 60
9. 6. Discourse on Modernity: A Philosophical Interlude 75
10. 7. From Purposive to Communicative Action in the Social Theories of Mead and Durkheim 104
11. 8. System and Lifeworld 115
12. 9. Talcott Parsons: Systems Theory 135
13. 10. From Parsons to Weber and Marx 148
14. 11. The Theory-Practice Problem Revisited 172
15. Abbreviations 189
16. Notes 191
17. Bibliography 243
18. Index 255