On the Logic of the Social Sciences (eBook)

Jürgen Habermas is the author of numerous books including The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity (Polity 1988) and The Theory of Communicative Action (Polity, 1988).

Introduction.

Translator's Note. Preface.

Part I. The Dualism of the Natural and Cultural
Sciences:.

1. A Historical Reconstruction.

2. Sociology and History: The Contemporary Discussion.

Part II. On the Methodology of General Theories of Social
Action:.

3. Normative-Analytic and Empirical-Analytic Approaches to
Social Science.

4. Intentional Action and Stimulus-Response Behaviour.

5. Three Forms of Functionalism.

Part III. On the Problem of Understanding Meaning in the
Empirical-Analytic Sciences of Action:.

6. The Phenomenological Approach.

7. The Linguistic Approach.

8. The Hermeneutic Approach.

Part IV. Sociology as Theory of the Present:.

9. The Limits of Linguistically Oriented Interpretive
Sociology.

10. Open Questions.

Notes.

Index.

'On the logic of the Social Sciences is a fine tribute to
the care with which Habermas prepared his [intellectual]
expedition. His survey of the literature of social scientific
theory is inclusive and incisive.' Times Higher Education
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'The vision of this book remains powerful and there is still
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