"Order Without Rules establishes the basic terms for a critical discourse between the theory of communicative action and the tradition of practice-based inquiries inspired by Wittgenstein and elaborated within the field of ethnomethodology. It argues that such a discourse not only is possible,...

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Main Author:	Bogen, David (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Albany, NY State Univ. of New York Press 1999
Series:	SUNY series in the philosophy of the social sciences
Subjects:	Communicatie Etnomethodologie Gesprekken Kritische theorie Taal Gesellschaft Kommunikation Communication > Social aspects Conversation > Social aspects
Online Access:	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:	"Order Without Rules establishes the basic terms for a critical discourse between the theory of communicative action and the tradition of practice-based inquiries inspired by Wittgenstein and elaborated within the field of ethnomethodology. It argues that such a discourse not only is possible, but that it is essential if critical theory is to move beyond the crisis caused by the decline of the great rationalist social projects of the past two centuries and the simultaneous rise of an array of post-enlightenment and anti-rationalist movements waiting to take their place." "Order Without Rules addresses the "problem of rationality" in its most contemporary incarnation: the critical theory of the German philosopher and social critic, Jurgen Habermas. Habermas attempts to resolve the Weberian paradox by identifying the rational "core" of communication with universal processes of interpretive understanding that are present in everyday conversation. Drawing upon the work within the Wittgensteinian and ethnomethodological traditions of linguistic and social analysis, this book questions whether the logic of language underlying Habermas's theory of communicative action is in fact the defining feature of conversational practice."--BOOK JACKET.
Physical Description:	X, 188 S.
ISBN:	0791440559 0791440567