Jürgen Habermas 
On the Logic of the Social Sciences [EPUB ebook] 

Introduction.
Translator’s Note. Preface.
Part I. The Dualism of the Natural and Cultural
Sciences:.
1. A Historical Reconstruction.
2. Sociology and History: The Contemporary Discussion.
Part II. On the Methodology of General Theories of Social
Action:.
3. Normative-Analytic and Empirical-Analytic Approaches to
Social Science.
4. Intentional Action and Stimulus-Response Behaviour.
5. Three Forms of Functionalism.
Part III. On the Problem of Understanding Meaning in the
Empirical-Analytic Sciences of Action:.
6. The Phenomenological Approach.
7. The Linguistic Approach.
8. The Hermeneutic Approach.
Part IV. Sociology as Theory of the Present:.
9. The Limits of Linguistically Oriented Interpretive
Sociology.
10. Open Questions.
Notes.
Index.

J&uumlrgen Habermas is the author of numerous books
including The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity (Polity
1988) and The Theory of Communicative Action (Polity, 1988).