COMMUNICATIVE ACTION AND LANGUAGE: ANINTRODUCTION TO HABERMAS'S COMMUNICATIVE ACTION THEORY

Jurgen Habermas calls for a clear and fine distinction between a complex notion of rationality and the narrow concept of instrumental rationality, from which it is possible to take a difference between the technique and practice, between scientific progress and the progress of reason. The same concern in overcoming the unilateral reading based on the instrumental reason template appears under the theory of action. It Habermas points out the crucial distinction between communicative action and strategic action, returning detailed philosophical reflection on the concepts of work and interaction found in the Hegelian lessons of his youth.