Review of Jürgen Habermas, On the Pragmatics of Social Interaction: Preliminary Studies in the Theory of Communicative Action. Trans. Barbara Fultner (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2001). Pp. 192. ISBN 0-7456-2551-7 (Hardback £50.00) and Jürgen Habermas, The Liberating Power of Symbols: Philosophical Essays. Trans. Peter Dews (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2001). Pp. 130. ISBN 0-7456-2552-5 (Paperback £14.99).
Lasse Thomassen, University of Essex On the Pragmatics of Social Interaction and The Liberating Power of Symbols stand at each end of Jürgen Habermas’s attempt to develop a theory of communicative action, universal pragmatics, and discourse ethics. On the Pragmatics of Social Interaction is a collection of preliminary studies of communicative action and universal pragmatics […]