One book by this thinker suggests that Dilthey successfully distinguished the practical and technical "cognitive interests" of the human vs. natural sciences, but fell prey to positivism.
One book by this thinker suggests that Dilthey successfully distinguished the practical and technical "cognitive interests" of the human vs. natural sciences, but fell prey to positivism. Another work by him divides rationality into aesthetic, normative, and cognitive-instrumental forms. This author of Knowledge and Human Interests suggested that the replacement of a representational culture with a Öffentlichkeit culture was fostered by institutions like Masonic lodges and coffeehouses. He attempted to synthesize the paradigms of lifeworld and system in a work that uses linguistic structures to analyze human actions. For 10 points, name this German philosopher, who wrote The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere and The Theory of Communicative Action.
One book by this thinker suggests that Dilthey successfully distinguished the practical and technical "cognitive interests" of the human vs. natural sciences, but fell prey to positivism.
Jürgen Habermas