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Dr Craig Hammond presentation on Jurgen Habermas, Modernity & the modernist project
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Jürgen Habermas 1929-
Modernity to Postmodernity:
Week Five
Dr Craig Hammond (UCBC)
Jürgen Habermas
The ‘last’ of the Modernists?
Habermas: Basic Concepts
• Enlightenment/Rationality– And how this is not-yet ‘exhausted’
• Communicative Action• Discourse Ethics• Consent• Pragmatics• Democracy
Enlightenment / Modernity
• Enlightenment/Modernity rests upon the following characteristics:
• 1) A belief in the fundamental process and human ability to ‘reason’
• 2) The rational and democratic practice of reason is established by the autonomy or democratic freedom of its citizens
• 3) Reason should be capable of evolving universal laws and norms via moral and political arenas.
• Note: to exercise personal freedom, to choose personal goals, and lifestyles – requires a type of freedom that others will accept; a freedom that others must agree to, and so avoid overriding or dominating another’s freedom.
Discourse Ethics & Pragmatics
Discourse Ethics & Pragmatics
• Discourse Ethics: the ‘Rules of Reason’ • Habermas in turn formulates the following
‘rules’ of reason-formulation in "Discourse Ethics," these are:
• Every subject with the competence to speak and act is allowed to take part in a discourse.
Discourse Ethics & Pragmatics
• 2a. Everyone is allowed to question any assertion. • 2b. Everyone is allowed to introduce an alternative
assertion into the discourse. • 2c. Everyone is allowed to express their attitudes,
desires, and needs. • 3. No speaker may be prevented, by internal or
external coercion, from exercising their rights as laid down in (1) and (2).
• Warning!!• Irrationality …• Unpredictability• Violence• Power• Hatred
Georges Bataille
• The Big Toe …