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“Vis-à-vis the conception of communicative action as presented by Jürgen Habermas in the paper for this symposium and at greater length in his recent book Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns I am troubled more than by anything else by two interconnected questions: first, what is the place of communicative actions within the field of actions in general? and secondly: what does Habermas mean by the term ‘communicative action’? By trying to find an answer to the first question I shall attempt to lead to an answer to the second.”