Theory of communicative activity

The first full translation into the Russian language of the main work of the outstanding German sociologist and philosopher Jurgen Habermas (b. 1929) Here are the approaches to the creation of the theory of society, which is based on the concept of communicative activity.

In order to deploy the content of this concept, to show its historical ripening, Habermas is engaged in a critical study of the theoretical heritage of sociological thought left by M. Weber, K. Marx, E. Durkheim, J.G. Foreign Ministry, T. Parsons, G. Lukach, M. Horkheimer, T. Adorno and others. At the same time, the main attention is paid to the processes of economic, social and other rationalization throughout the “era of modern” - the era of the formation and development of economic structure and institutes of the management of the modern (modern) capitalist society, as well as the understanding of the meaning of the “life world” and communicative media (mediums) language, money, authorities and others that regulate and direct the joint activities of people who achieve mutual understanding.

Thematic latitude, the detansion of argumentation, attracting the apparatus of the theories of language and science made a book of Habermas one of the centers of attention of international theoretical discussion in the social sciences