TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sitton,John F.
TI  - Habermas and contemporary society
SN  - 1403961921
AV  - HM467 .S58 2003
U1  - 301 21
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Habermas, Jürgen
KW  - Critical theory
KW  - Frankfurt school of sociology
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-190) and index; 1; Weber and Modernity --; 2; Weber and Western Marxism --; 3; Rationality and Communicative Action --; 4; Society as Lifeworld and System --; 5; Social Conflict and Progressive Politics --; 6; Contested Terrain: Language, Art, and Gender --; 7; The Limitations of Habermas's Social and Political Argument --; 8; Habermas and the Politics of the Twenty-First Century
N2  - By marginalizing methodological and other more specialized theoretical concerns, this book focuses on Habermas' substantive portrayal of contemporary society and its discontents
ER  -