ISBN:
9781783085026
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (306 pages)
Series Statement:
Key issues in modern sociology
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DDC:
301.01
Keywords:
Habermas, Jürgen
;
Giddens, Anthony
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Giddens, Anthony
;
Habermas, Jürgen
;
Critical theory
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Civilization, Modern
;
Moderne
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Sozialphilosophie
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Habermas, Jürgen 1929-
;
Giddens, Anthony 1938-
;
Moderne
;
Sozialphilosophie
Abstract:
In Habermas and Giddens on Praxis and Modernity Craig Browne investigates how two of the most important and influential contemporary social theorists have sought to develop the modernist visions of the constitution of society through the autonomous actions of subjects. Comparing Habermas's and Giddens's conceptions of the constitution of society, interpretations of the social-structural impediments to subjects' autonomy and attempts to delineate potentials for progressive social change within contemporary society, Browne draws on his own work, which has extended aspects of the social theorists' approach to modernity. Despite the criticisms developed over the course of the book, Habermas and Giddens are found to be two of the most important theorists of democratization and social democracy, the dynamics of capitalist modernity and their paradoxes, social practices and reflexivity, and the foundations of social theory in the problem of the relationship of social action and social structure
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction -- Habermas' new paradigm of critical theory -- Giddens' theory of structuration : an ontology of the social -- Habermas on the institutionalising of modernity: communicative rationality, lifeworld and system -- Giddens on institutionalizing modernity: power and discontinuity -- Intermediate reflections on social theory alternatives: contrasts and divisions -- Globalisation, the welfare state and social democracy -- Deliberative politics, the democratising of democracy and European cosmopolitanism -- Conclusion
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