Abstract

This book is an abridged translation of Arens' work Kommunikative Handlungen. Its aims are complex and three-fold: to bring together Anglo-American and Continental thought on the nature of language and action ; to identify a logic of development within the American pragmatist movement and subsequent Continental thought inspired by this tradition ; and to resolve the differences between, and thereby integrate, the pragmatics of K. O. Apel and Jürgen Habermas.