Jurgen Habermas has developed the theory of communicative action primarily in the context of critical social and political theory and discourse ethics. The essays collected in this volume, however, focus on the theory's implications for epistemology and metaphysics. They address two fundamental issues that have not figured prominently in his work since the early 1970s. One is the question of naturalism: How can the ineluctable normativity of the pers
An accessible introduction to the different theories of the mass media, emphasizing the importance of using theory, not only to make sense of the role of media in society, but also to understand different aspects of mass communication.
The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute, Volume 2009
The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute, a peer-edited Journal that provides a forum for an exchange of scholarly ideas and opinions about legal writing.
Legal Writing publishes articles, empirical research, book reviews, and critical commentary from persons interested in the theory and the practice of legal writing, in composition, rhetoric and linguistic theory, in the design of courses and curricula, and in teaching and learning theory as applied in the classroom and practice.
Major changes have shaken Marxism over recent decades. This collection of essays, by two American authors of international repute, documents what has become the most original formulation of Marxist theory today. Resnick and Wolff ’s work is shaping Marxism’s new directions and new departures as it repositions itself for the twenty first century. Their new non-determinist and class-focused Marxist
Bringing his perennially popular course to the page, Yale University Professor Paul H. Fry offers in this welcome book a guided tour of the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory. At the core of the book's discussion is a series of underlying questions: What is literature, how is it produced, how can it be understood, and what is its purpose?Fry engages with the major themes and strands in twentieth-century literary theory, among them hermeneutics, modes of formalism, semiotics and Structuralism, deconstruction, psychoanalytic approaches, Marxist and historicist approaches, theories of social identity, Neo-pragmatism and theory.
