First published in Studies in Social and Political Thought 1, 1999.
Author Biography
Darrow Schecter, University of Sussex
Darrow Schecter is a Reader in Critical Theory, and is currently Head of History in the School of HAHP, University of Sussex. His books have been translated into Japanese, Turkish, Spanish and German. Recent publications include ‘The Critique of Instrumental Reason from Weber to Habermas’ (2011) and ‘Critical Theory in the Twenty-first Century’ (2013). He is currently completing a book on ‘Critical Theory and Sociological Theory’, due to appear next year.
Schecter, D. (2017) “The Functional Transformation of the Political World: Reflections on Habermas”, Studies in Social and Political Thought, 260. doi: 10.20919/sspt.26.2016.53.
