Modernity Theories, from Self-founded Reason to Communicative Reason

Document Type : Research Paper

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Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Islamic Azad University, Chalous

Abstract

Modernity theories occupy a vast scope in the literature, representing philosophical, historical-civil, sociological-historical approaches, and sociology of religion. Various analytical methods and theories with specific titles and characteristics have been developed within any of these approaches. The present research started with the assumption that all these approaches in this wide-ranging spectrum revolve around action and reaction concepts on one hand, and self-founded and communicative reason on the other. By using this framework, the above-mentioned notions can be conceptualized and differentiated as the main focus of this study. Our research hypothesis states that modernity theories began with the self-founded and autonomic action and then were extended to communicative reason and interaction. It follows that, the theorists’  who attempted to explain the essence of modernity moved from philosophy to sociology in form of a process by which the society was rationalized while conceptualizing reason made a passage through transcendental to instrumental and then to communicative reason. The focus of this research is on the exploration of this path by the use of a historical-hermeneutical approach.

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POLITICAL QUARTERLY
Volume 51, Issue 1
June 2021
Pages 133-151

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  • Receive Date: 07 January 2020
  • Revise Date: 11 March 2020
  • Accept Date: 11 March 2020

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