هابرماس و گیدنز دربارهٔ عمل و مدرنیته: مقایسه‌ای سازنده (مسائل کلیدی در جامعه‌شناسی مدرن)

Habermas and Giddens on Modernity: A Constructive Comparison investigates how two of the most important and influential contemporary social theorists have sought to develop the modernist visions of the constitution of society through the autonomous actions of subjects. In Habermas and Giddens on Praxis and Modernity Craig Browne investigates how two of the most important and influential contemporary social theorists have sought to develop the modernist visions of the constitution of society through the autonomous actions of subjects. Comparing Habermass and Giddenss conceptions of the constitution of society, interpretations of the social-structural impediments to subjects autonomy and attempts to delineate potentials for progressive social change within contemporary society, Browne draws on his own work, which has extended aspects of the social theorists approach to modernity. Despite the criticisms developed over the course of the book, Habermas and Giddens are found to be two of the most important theorists of democratization and social democracy, the dynamics of capitalist modernity and their paradoxes, social practices and reflexivity, and the foundations of social theory in the problem of the relationship of social action and social structure. Title 3 Copyright 4 Contents 5 Acknowledgements 7 Introduction 9 1. Habermas’s New Paradigm of Critical Theory 31 2. Giddens’s Theory of Structuration – an Ontology of the Social 71 3. Habermas on the Institutionalizing of Modernity: Communicative Rationality, Lifeworld and System 111 4. Giddens on Institutionalizing Modernity: Power and Discontinuity 147 5. Intermediate Refl ections on Social Theory Alternatives: Contrasts and Divisions 171 6. Globalization, the Welfare State and Social Democracy 183 7. Deliberative Politics, the Democratizing of Democracy and European Cosmopolitanism 211 Conclusion 247 Bibliography 281 Index 309 Introduction -- Habermas' new paradigm of critical theory -- Giddens' theory of structuration : an ontology of the social -- Habermas on the institutionalising of modernity: communicative rationality, lifeworld and system -- Giddens on institutionalizing modernity: power and discontinuity -- Intermediate reflections on social theory alternatives: contrasts and divisions -- Globalisation, the welfare state and social democracy -- Deliberative politics, the democratising of democracy and European cosmopolitanism -- Conclusion