
Toward a Rational Society
Student Protest, Science, and Politics
Juergen Habermas(Author)
Polity Press
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 2. June 1986
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-0-435-82381-8 (ISBN)
Description
Universities must transmit technically exploitable knowledge. That is, they must meet an industrial society's need for qualified new generations and at the same time be concerned with the expanded reproduction of education itself. In addition, universities must not only transmit technically exploitable knowledge, but also produce it. This includes both information flowing from research into the channels of industrial utilization, armament, and social welfare, and advisory knowledge that enters into strategies of administration, government, and other decision-making powers, such as private enterprises. Thus, through instruction and research the university is immediately connected with functions of the economic process.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
172 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-435-82381-8 (9780435823818)
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Persons
Juergen Habermas is a German philosopher and sociologist in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. He is perhaps best known for his theories on communicative rationality and the public sphere. In 2014, Prospect readers chose Habermas as one of their favourites among the "world's leading thinkers". Jeremy J. Shapiro, is an American academic, a professor at Fielding Graduate University who works in the area of critical social theory with emphasis on the social and cultural effects of information technology and systems, social change, and the aesthetics of music.
Author
Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt
Translation
Content
Translator's Preface vii
Chapter One: The University in a Democracy-Democratization of the University 1
Chapter Two: Student Protest in the Federal Republic of Germany 13
Chapter Three: The Movement in Germany: A Critical Analysis 31
Three Intentions
First Justification: The Theory of Imperialism
Second Justification: Neoanarchism
Third Justification: Cultural Revolution
The Actual Results
The Source of the Protest Potential
What Is to Be Done?
Chapter Four: Technical Progress and the Social Life-World 50
Chapter Five: The Scientization of Politics and Public Opinion 62
Chapter Six: Technology and Science as "Ideology" 81
Notes 123
Index 129
Chapter One: The University in a Democracy-Democratization of the University 1
Chapter Two: Student Protest in the Federal Republic of Germany 13
Chapter Three: The Movement in Germany: A Critical Analysis 31
Three Intentions
First Justification: The Theory of Imperialism
Second Justification: Neoanarchism
Third Justification: Cultural Revolution
The Actual Results
The Source of the Protest Potential
What Is to Be Done?
Chapter Four: Technical Progress and the Social Life-World 50
Chapter Five: The Scientization of Politics and Public Opinion 62
Chapter Six: Technology and Science as "Ideology" 81
Notes 123
Index 129