On the Pragmatics of Social Interaction

Translator's Introduction vii

Reflections on the Linguistic Foundation of Sociology: The Christian Gauss Lecture (Princeton University, February-March 1971) 1

I Objectivist and Subjectivist Approaches to Theory Formation in the Social Sciences 3

II The Phenomenological Constitutive Theory of Society: The Fundamental Role of Claims to Validity and the Monadological Foundations of Intersubjectivity 23

III From a Constitutive Theory to a Communicative Theory of Society (Sellars and Wittgenstein): Communicative and Cognitive Uses of Language 45

IV Universal Pragmatics: Reflections on a Theory of Communicative Competence 67

V Truth and Society: The Discursive Redemption of Factual Claims to Validity 85

Intentions, Conventions, and Linguistic Interactions (1976) 105

Reflections on Communicative Pathology (1974) 129

Notes 171

Index 183