List of Figures
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: Habermas, Communicative Reason, and the Social Sciences
Chapter 2: Sociology and Reason: General Considerations
Chapter 3: Reason and the Reflexive Turn in Sociology
Chapter 4: The State of Reason in Sociology
Chapter 5: Peirce, Reason, and Signification
Chapter 6: Reasoning and Schemata in a Societal Frame
Chapter 7: Towards a Sign-Mediated Societal Ontology
Chapter 8: Reason, Communication, and Validity
Chapter 9: Validity, Schemata, and Reasoning on Moral-Political Issues
Chapter 10: Reasoning and Validity Standards
Chapter 11: Reason and Critique
Chapter 12: Critique and Reasoning Pathologies
Index
Biography
Patrick O’Mahony, Department of Sociology and Criminology, University College, Cork, Ireland, is the author of The Contemporary Theory of the Public Sphere, the editor of Nature, Risk and Responsibility: Discourses of Biotechnology, the co-author of Rethinking Irish History: Nationalism, Identity and Ideology and Nationalism and Social Theory, co-editor of Irish Environmental Politics after the Communicative Turn, and guest editor of the Special Issue on The Critical Theory of Society for the European Journal of Social Theory (2023).
“Overall, the book makes a valuable contribution to thinking about reason, rationality, and the current state of the social sciences, and how as social scientists we should continue to critically reassess the tools that we work with […]. As reason is the basis of thought and social action, this book makes a timely call for further discussion about how we understand it, especially in times of increased social diversity and a plethora of perspectives in the public square.” - Andrew P. Lynch, European Journal of Social Theory
