It presents rules for the "ideal speech situation," which is grounded in the title activity.
This book decries society's increased tendency towards the formalization of law, because such "juridification" de-couples law from natural conceptions of justice and shifts importance from the role of the citizen to the role of the client. This book distinguishes between qualitative and quantitative forms of what it calls "generalized media," the latter type of which includes money and power, and argues that quantitative media dominate qualitative media. This book argues that society has undergone a crisis of (*) legitimation, which it characterizes as a colonization of lifeworld by systems. It presents rules for the "ideal speech situation," which is grounded in the title activity. For 10 points, name this magnum opus of Jürgen Habermas.
This book decries society's increased tendency towards the formalization of law, because such "juridification" de-couples law from natural conceptions of justice and shifts importance from the role of the citizen to the role of the client.
The Theory of Communicative Action [or: Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns]