JOHN F. SITTON is Professor of Political Science at Indiana University of Pennsylvania where he has taught since 1987. Among other institutions, he previously held teaching positions at the University of Texas at Arlington and at Lamar University. He is the author of Recent Marxian Theory: Class Formation and Social Conflict in Contemporary Capitalism.

'... the book provides a very valuable introduction to the central themes of Habermas's very large and complex corpus of thought on contemporary society.' - David S. Owen, Colloquia Germanica

• Acknowledgements Preface One: Weber and Modernity Two: Rationality and Communicative Action Three: Society as Lifeworld and System Four: Social Conflict and Progressive Politics Five: The Limitations of Habermas's Social and Political Argument Works Cited

JOHN F. SITTON is Professor of Political Science at Indiana University of Pennsylvania where he has taught since 1987. Among other institutions, he previously held teaching positions at the University of Texas at Arlington and at Lamar University. He is the author of Recent Marxian Theory: Class Formation and Social Conflict in Contemporary Capitalism.

'... the book provides a very valuable introduction to the central themes of Habermas's very large and complex corpus of thought on contemporary society.' - David S. Owen, Colloquia Germanica

• Acknowledgements Preface One: Weber and Modernity Two: Rationality and Communicative Action Three: Society as Lifeworld and System Four: Social Conflict and Progressive Politics Five: The Limitations of Habermas's Social and Political Argument Works Cited