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arkuatSo I requested the first volume of Juergen Habermas's Theory of Communicative Action through Interlibrary Loan (our local city/county library has the second volume on the shelf, but not the first). ILL allows only three weeks, with no renewals, and the book is pretty heavy going, so I didn't get quite halfway through the first volume before I had to return it. I want to read the rest of it, and the second volume, but I'm still absorbing what I've already read.
Where I left off, he had just begun directly addressing the idea of antipositivism in social science. This is hard to explain, but Wikipedia does a pretty good job as of the date of this posting, so:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipositivism
That alone left me with a lot to think about, and to integrate with the very small amount of stuff that I've read in sociology of science and related fields.
More information about the book here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_Communicative_Action
I'm posting this on the off-chance that there is anyone in my circle of friends who has read this book or would like to: if so, I'd really like to know.
Where I left off, he had just begun directly addressing the idea of antipositivism in social science. This is hard to explain, but Wikipedia does a pretty good job as of the date of this posting, so:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipositivism
That alone left me with a lot to think about, and to integrate with the very small amount of stuff that I've read in sociology of science and related fields.
More information about the book here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_Communicative_Action
I'm posting this on the off-chance that there is anyone in my circle of friends who has read this book or would like to: if so, I'd really like to know.
