Members of the helping professions need ready access to the research literature in an increasingly wide range of fields, from community work and ethnic minority groups to adoption, drug/ alcohol misuse, mental health and unemployment.
"The Theory of Communicative Action" offers nothing less than a systematic reconstruction of the theoretical foundations and framework of critical social theory. In this second and final volume of the work, Habermas examines the relations between action concepts and systems theory and elaborates a framework for analyzing the developmental tendencies of modern societies. He discusses in detail t…