Jürgen Habermas ; translated and with an introd. by Thomas McCarthy.
Boston :
Beacon Press,
c1979.
xxiv, 239 p. ;
21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
What is universal pragmatics? -- Moral development and ego identity -- Historical materialism and the development of normative structures -- Toward a reconstruction of historical materialism -- Legitimation problems in the modern state.
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Five essays provide an overview of the emerging research program for analyzing contemporary society from a historical and pragmatic standpoint within the rules of empirical science.