“The only knowledge that can truly orient action is knowledge that frees itself from mere human interests and is based in Ideas - in other words knowledge that has taken a theoretical attitude.” HumansIdeasActionInterestAttitudeTakenMereTheoretical Author:Jurgen Habermas
“[Critical social science attempts] to determine when theoretical statements grasp invariant regularities of social action as such and when they express ideologically frozen relations of dependence that can in principle be transformed.” ActionSocialPrinciplesRelationDetermineCriticalStatementsTransformedDependenceFrozenTheoreticalSocial ScienceRegularitySocial Action Author:Jurgen Habermas
“Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style” ArtStillsWarStatesActionTechnologyStylePoliceInternationalAfterlifeKosovo Author:Jurgen Habermas