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1 released bookThe Theory of Communicative Action is a 2-book series first released in 1981 with contributions by Jürgen Habermas and Thomas A. McCarthy.
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This is by far the hardest book I've ever finished. Habermas is supremely knowledgeable and is not the most clear of writers, but this book and the second volume are a tour de force. I particularly liked how Habermas relies on an action-based framework to base his whole philosophic construct on. Leveraging, Rawls and other analytical philosophers to update his Marxian-influenced theories was refreshing (not to mention Luhmann's system theory). Overall, I certainly felt very convinced at the end but would struggle to clearly articulate what Habermas theory is