Habermas

[arkuat]

So 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.

Comments

[mle292.livejournal.com]

I see that this book is available (used) for an amount of money that I can reasonably afford. I will buy you this book if you'd like, on the condition that you owe me nothing, and that you don't get weird about getting a gift.

If you don't want more books cluttering your life, you could put it in a free library when you're done, or regift it.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

I thought you were going to tell us that Habermas was a holiday we haven't heard of.

K.