"For those concerned with the relationships between thought and action, Knowledge and Human Interests will quickly be recognized as a brilliant book --and a bold outline for a new social theory." -Times Literary Supplement

Knowledge, communication, action - these are the concepts central to all of Habermas's thought. As a philosopher, he is concerned with the rational connection of these concepts. As a sociologist, he is prepared to analyze with care the distortion of human interaction caused by existing social and political institutions.