Habermas-Luhmann Debate
Habermas-Luhmann Debate Fifty years ago, the two leading German philosophers and sociologists since the Second World War, J rgen Habermas and Niklas Luhmann, embarked on a sweeping and contentious…
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Habermas-Luhmann Debate
Fifty years ago, the two leading German philosophers and sociologists since the Second World War, J rgen Habermas and Niklas Luhmann, embarked on a sweeping and contentious debate that would continue for decades. Habermas and Luhmann would elaborate their disagreement in the years to come in a controversy whose aftershocks divided social theorists by presenting what appeared to be two fundamentally divergent views of the nature of society and what systems theory was capable of explaining.This is the first book in English about one of the most important conflicts in social theory today. Their coauthored 1971 book Theory of Society or Social Technology laid out their opposing positions on meaning, communication, consensus, and dissent--and ultimately the foundations of modern social thought.
Gorm Harste analyzes the Habermas-Luhmann debate from its inception through Habermas's