Communicative Reason: A Sociological Restatement

The book examines philosophical and sociological approaches within critical theory and more widely from the vantage point of communicative reason. It seeks to revitalize the sociological dimension of critical theory by advancing a critical sociology of reason.

Patrick O’Mahony, Department of Sociology and Criminology, University College, Cork, Ireland, is the author of The Contemporary Theory of the Public Sphere, the editor of Nature, Risk and Responsibility: Discourses of Biotechnology, the co-author of Rethinking Irish History: Nationalism, Identity and Ideology and Nationalism and Social Theory, co-editor of Irish Environmental Politics after the Communicative Turn, and guest editor of the Special Issue on The Critical Theory of Society for the European Journal of Social Theory (2023).