Autorentext

Patrick O'Mahony, Department of Sociology and Criminology, University College, Cork, Ireland, is the author of The Contemporary Theory of the Public Sphere, the editor of Nature, Risk and Responsibility: Discourses of Biotechnology, the co-author of Rethinking Irish History: Nationalism, Identity and Ideology and Nationalism and Social Theory, co-editor of Irish Environmental Politics after the Communicative Turn, and guest editor of the Special Issue on The Critical Theory of Society for the European Journal of Social Theory (2023).

Klappentext

The book examines philosophical and sociological approaches within critical theory and more widely from the vantage point of communicative reason. It seeks to revitalize the sociological dimension of critical theory by advancing a critical sociology of reason.

Inhalt

List of Figures

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1: Habermas, Communicative Reason, and the Social Sciences

Chapter 2: Sociology and Reason: General Considerations

Chapter 3: Reason and the Reflexive Turn in Sociology

Chapter 4: The State of Reason in Sociology

Chapter 5: Peirce, Reason, and Signification

Chapter 6: Reasoning and Schemata in a Societal Frame

Chapter 7: Towards a Sign-Mediated Societal Ontology

Chapter 8: Reason, Communication, and Validity

Chapter 9: Validity, Schemata, and Reasoning on Moral-Political Issues

Chapter 10: Reasoning and Validity Standards

Chapter 11: Reason and Critique

Chapter 12: Critique and Reasoning Pathologies

Index