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Commentary on Jürgen Habermas, The Theory of Communicative Action, vol. 2: Lifeworld and System
copyright 1981 by Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
third corrected edition 1985
translated by Thomas McCarthy
published 1987 by Beacon Press (Boston)
Note that the first four headings, below, appear in volume 1:
Introduction: Approaches to the Problem of Rationality
Max Weber's Theory of Rationalization
Intermediate Reflections: Social Action, Purposive Activity, and Communication
From Lukacs to Adorno: Rationalization as Reification
Here, in volume 2:
The Paradigm Shift in Mead and Durkheim: From Purposive Activity to Communicative Action
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