Habermas and Giddens on praxis and modernity : a constructive comparison / Craig Browne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Browne, Craig, author.

Series:

Key issues in modern sociology.

Key issues in modern sociology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Habermas, Jürgen.

Giddens, Anthony.

Critical theory.

Civilization, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

London : Anthem Press, 2017.

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Jan 2018).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781783085033

1783085037

OCLC:

1504510413