The problem of triple contingency in Habermas

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dc.contributor.authorStrydom, Piet
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-13T11:33:25Z
dc.date.available2019-05-13T11:33:25Z
dc.date.issued2001-07-01
dc.date.updated2019-05-13T11:24:17Z
dc.description.abstractFrom 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 The Theory of Communicative Action and Between Facts and Norms are essentially an elaboration of a solution to this problem in terms of a more fully developed theory of communication than had been available to his predecessors. Given the intense concentration and the immense expenditure of energy on the working out of the coordinating accomplishments and structures required by the complex solution envisaged by him, it is unsurprising that Habermas overlooks the next most important problem intermittently raised by the theory of communicative action, namely, the problem of “triple contingency,” that is, the contingency that the public brings into the social process. This has far-reaching implications for Habermas's place in the sociological tradition and for the relation of the younger generation to him. Because of his continued search for a solution to a problem posed in the classical phase of sociology and his concomitant failure to develop the new problem that he himself raised in the course of so doing, he can be classified with Parsons as being a neoclassical sociologist. He nevertheless bequeaths a serious problem to contemporary sociology.en
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dc.identifier.citationStrydom, P. (2001) 'The problem of triple contingency in Habermas', Sociological Theory, 19(2), pp. 165-186. doi: 10.1111/0735-2751.00135en
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/0735-2751.00135en
dc.identifier.eissn1467-9558
dc.identifier.endpage186en
dc.identifier.issn0735-2751
dc.identifier.issued2en
dc.identifier.journaltitleSociological Theoryen
dc.identifier.startpage165en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/7886
dc.identifier.volume19en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSAGE Publications on behalf of the American Sociological Associationen
dc.relation.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/0735-2751.00135
dc.rights© 2001, American Sociological Association. All rights reserved.en
dc.subjectHabermasen
dc.subjectTheory of communicative actionen
dc.subjectDouble contingencyen
dc.subjectTriple contingencyen
dc.titleThe problem of triple contingency in Habermasen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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