Readings from: B (PP215-225): The Action-Theory of the Early Middle Period (from Volume 2 of Theory of Communicative Action, Habermas, 1987) Why was Cartesianism such a problem for Parsons? Continuing

(Current post follows on from this introductory post) In the introductory section to chapter seven (p203), Habermas lays out the basic argument that he is concerned with in section I

Having previously been under the impression that Talcott Parsons had become an irrelevance in late 20th century social theory (an easy impression to make if you browsed some of the major