• The contemporary Habermas: towards triple contingency? 

  Strydom, Piet (SAGE Publications, 1999-05-01)
• Hermeneutic culturalism and its double: a key problem in the reflexive modernization debate 

  Strydom, Piet (SAGE Publications, 1999-02-01)

  Proceeding from the debate opened by Beck, Giddens and Lash’s Reflexive Modernization (1994), this paper seeks to clear the way for a more consistent and coherent concept of reflexivity in relation to the cultural-symbolic ...
• Triple contingency: the theoretical problem of the public in communication societies 

  Strydom, Piet (SAGE Publications, 1999-03-01)

  This paper seeks to show that the proposition of 'double contingency’ introduced by Parsons and defended by Luhmann and Habermas is insufficient under the conditions of contemporary communication societies. In the latter ...
• Introduction to Apel 

  Strydom, Piet (SAGE Publications, 2000-05-01)
• The problem of triple contingency in Habermas 

  Strydom, Piet (SAGE Publications on behalf of the American Sociological Association, 2001-07-01)

  From a certain perspective, Habermas's theory of communicative action is a response, in extension of Mead, Schutz, and Parsons, to the risk of dissension posed by double contingency. Starting from double contingency, both ...

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