Habermas and Giddens on Praxis and Modernity - A Constructive Comparison

This major new contribution forms a constructive comparison of the social theories of Jürgen Habermas and Anthony Giddens that focuses on their approaches to modernity, their endeavours to develop new perspectives, and their critical rethinking of the modernist vision of an autonomous society.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. New Paradigms and social theory Perspectives; Chapter One Habermas's New Paradigm of Critical Theory; Chapter Two Giddens's Theory of Structuration - an Ontology of the Social; Part II. Institutionalizing Modernity: Development and Discontinuity; Chapter Three Habermas on the Institutionalizing of Modernity: Communicative Rationality, Lifeworld and System; Chapter Four Giddens on Institutionalizing Modernity: Power and Discontinuity; Chapter Five Intermediate Reflections on Social Theory Alternatives: Contrasts and Divisions; Part III. The Political and Social Constellation of Contemporary Modernity; Chapter Six Globalization, the Welfare State and Social Democracy; Chapter Seven Deliberative Politics, the Democratizing of Democracy and European Cosmopolitanism; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Craig Browne

Product details

• Authors: Craig Browne
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.01.2017
• EAN: 9781783085002
• ISBN: 978-1-78308-500-2
• No. of pages: 314
• Series: Key Issues in Modern Sociology
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories