Reason, History, and Politics - The Communitarian Grounds of Legitimation in the Modern Age

The author shows that conceptions of rationality in current theories of science and law can account for neither the legitimacy of paradigm shifts nor the communitarian integrity internal to paradigms generally. He proposes an alternative conception of rationality that does.

About the author

David Ingram is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University of Chicago. He is the author of Habermas and the Dialectic of Reason and Critical Theory and Philosophy and co-editor of Critical Theory: The Essential Readings.

Product details

• Authors: David Ingram
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.03.1995
• EAN: 9780791423493
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-2349-3
• No. of pages: 467
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 798 g
• Series: Suny Series in Social and Poli; Suny Series in Social and Poli; Suny Social and Political Thou
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works