Communicative reason : a sociological restatement / Patrick O'Mahony.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Mahony, Patrick, 1957- author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Series:

Routledge studies in social and political thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Critical theory.

Reason--Social aspects.

Reason.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 321 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.

Biography/History:

Patrick O'Mahony, Department of Sociology and Criminology, University College, Cork, Ireland,is the author of The Contemporary Theory of the Public Sphere, the editor of Nature, Risk and Responsibility: Discourses of Biotechnology, the co-author of Rethinking Irish History: Nationalism, Identity and Ideology and Nationalism and Social Theory, co-editor of Irish Environmental Politics after the Communicative Turn, and guest editor of the Special Issue on The Critical Theory of Society for the European Journal of Social Theory (2023).

Contents:

Habermas, Communicative Reason, and the Social Sciences

Sociology and Reason: General Considerations

Reason and the Reflexive Turn in Sociology

The State of Reason in Sociology

Peirce, Reason, and Signification

Reasoning and Schemata in a Societal Frame

Towards a Sign-Mediated Societal Ontology

Reason, Communication, and Validity

Validity, Schemata, and Reasoning on Moral-Political Issues

Reasoning and Validity Standards

Reason and Critique

Critique and Reasoning Pathologies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 14, 2024).

Other Format:

Print version: O'Mahony, Patrick, 1957- Communicative reason

ISBN:

9780429595370

0429595379

9780429594083

0429594089

9780429592799

0429592795

9780429060571

0429060572

Publisher Number:

40032521494

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.