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By marginalizing methodological and other more specialized theoreticalconcerns this book focuses on Habermass substantive portrayal of contemporarysociety and its discontents. Over the last four decades Jrgen Habermas hasforged an innovative and muchdiscussed theory of contemporary capitalistsociety. Building on Max Webers thesis that the dynamic of capitalism actuallyerodes individual freedom and the meaningfulness of social lifefamouslyresulting in a culture of specialists without spirit sensualists withoutheartHabermas traces contemporary social conflict to resistance to thisdynamic by a variety of social groups. His theory of communicative actionattempts to show the possibilities in contemporary society for moving toward amore balanced social life that unlike other political currents today wouldnot sacrifice the truly progressive features of complex modern societies. «
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