Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) - Brossura

Habermas, Jürgen

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ISBN 10: 0262581183 ISBN 13: 9780262581189

Casa editrice: MIT Press, 1992

Riassunto

This long-awaited book sets out the implications of Habermas's theory of communicative action for moral theory. "Discourse ethics" attempts to reconstruct a moral point of view from which normative claims can be impartially judged. The theory of justice it develops replaces Kant's categorical imperative with a procedure of justification based on reasoned agreement among participants in practical discourse. Habermas connects communicative ethics to the theory of social action via an examination of research in the social psychology of moral and interpersonal development. He aims to show that our basic moral intuitions spring from something deeper and more universal than contingent features of our tradition, namely from normative presuppositions of social interaction that belong to the repertoire of competent agents in any society.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Jonathan Crary is Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory at Columbia University. A founding editor of Zone Books, he is the author of Techniques of the Observer (MIT Press, 1990) and coeditor of Incorporations (Zone Books, 1992). He has been the recipient of Guggenheim, Getty, Mellon, and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: MIT Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0262581183
• ISBN 13: 9780262581189
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 244