Tony Smith is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Iowa State University of Science and Technology. He is the author of The Logic of Marx's Capital, also published by SUNY Press.

• Preface Part One: The Framework Chapter I. The Role of Philosophical Discourse in Social Theory IntroductionSocial ScienceSocial EthicsSocial PolicyConclusionPart Two: Some Ethical Issues in the Social Sciences Chapter II. The Scope of the Social Sciences in Weber and Habermas WeberHabermasCritical Social ScienceChapter III. Agricultural Science and Ideology Ideological Mechanisms in Agricultural ScienceIdeology in the Family Farm DebateChapter IV. Two Models of Historical Materialism CohenHabermasPart Three: Some Ethical Evaluations of Capitalism Chapter V. On Liberty and Equality Chapter VI. Are Entrepreneurial Profits Prima Facie Deserved? The Goal of Market ExchangeEntrepreneurial Profits: Genus and SpeciesConclusionPart Four: Three Normative Models Chapter VII. Kant's Political Philosophy: Rechtsstaat or Council Democracy? Kant's A Priori Argument for a Pure Republic (Rechtsstaat) and Federation of RepublicsThe Empirical Premises in Kant's ArgumentSketch of an Alternative Model of Institutions Embodying Kantian PrinciplesChapter VIII. Rawls and the Structural Limits of the Capitalist State Rawls's Normative ModelStructural Analysis of Rawl's ModelConclusionChapter IX. Habermas and History: The Institutionalization of Discourse as Historical Project The Analysis of ModernityHabermas's Normative ModelEvaluation of Habermas's ModelThe Institutionalization of Discourse: An Alternative ModelPart Five: Some Issues of Strategy and Tactics Chapter X. Ethics and Power in the Work of Jürgen Habermas Habermas's Communicative EthicHabermas on PowerHabermas on the Priority of Communicative ActionConclusionChapter XI. Habermas on the University: Bildung in the Age of Technology The Changing Function of the UniversityTwo Alternative Strategies Regarding the Contemporary UniversityHabermas's Strategic OrientationNotes Selected Bibliography Index

Tony Smith is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Iowa State University of Science and Technology. He is the author of The Logic of Marx's Capital, also published by SUNY Press.

• Preface Part One: The Framework Chapter I. The Role of Philosophical Discourse in Social Theory IntroductionSocial ScienceSocial EthicsSocial PolicyConclusionPart Two: Some Ethical Issues in the Social Sciences Chapter II. The Scope of the Social Sciences in Weber and Habermas WeberHabermasCritical Social ScienceChapter III. Agricultural Science and Ideology Ideological Mechanisms in Agricultural ScienceIdeology in the Family Farm DebateChapter IV. Two Models of Historical Materialism CohenHabermasPart Three: Some Ethical Evaluations of Capitalism Chapter V. On Liberty and Equality Chapter VI. Are Entrepreneurial Profits Prima Facie Deserved? The Goal of Market ExchangeEntrepreneurial Profits: Genus and SpeciesConclusionPart Four: Three Normative Models Chapter VII. Kant's Political Philosophy: Rechtsstaat or Council Democracy? Kant's A Priori Argument for a Pure Republic (Rechtsstaat) and Federation of RepublicsThe Empirical Premises in Kant's ArgumentSketch of an Alternative Model of Institutions Embodying Kantian PrinciplesChapter VIII. Rawls and the Structural Limits of the Capitalist State Rawls's Normative ModelStructural Analysis of Rawl's ModelConclusionChapter IX. Habermas and History: The Institutionalization of Discourse as Historical Project The Analysis of ModernityHabermas's Normative ModelEvaluation of Habermas's ModelThe Institutionalization of Discourse: An Alternative ModelPart Five: Some Issues of Strategy and Tactics Chapter X. Ethics and Power in the Work of Jürgen Habermas Habermas's Communicative EthicHabermas on PowerHabermas on the Priority of Communicative ActionConclusionChapter XI. Habermas on the University: Bildung in the Age of Technology The Changing Function of the UniversityTwo Alternative Strategies Regarding the Contemporary UniversityHabermas's Strategic OrientationNotes Selected Bibliography Index