Description: Questions whether the logic of language underlying Habermas's theory of communicative action is in fact the defining feature of conversational practice.
Brief description: David Bogen is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Acting Director of Interdisciplinary Studies at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. He is the author, with Michael Lynch, of The Spectacle of History: Speech, Text, and Memory at the Iran-Contra Hearings.
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"...recommendable reading ..." - Contemporary Sociology