How Language Ritual and Sacraments Work: According to John Austin, Jurgen Habermas and Louis Marie Cauvet

By M. Duffy

The study draws on three principle authors: John Austin was a british philosopher who developed Speech Act theory, in which utterances are understood as actions rather than merely descriptions. Jurgen Habermas is a german philosopher-sociologist who developed Austin's ideas in his theory of communicative action. Habermas identifies himself as a neo-marxist but as the philosopher of discourse he has engaged with thinkers across the political and religious spectrum.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8878390380
• ISBN13: 9788878390386
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Gregorian & Biblical Press
• Length: 284 Pages