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theory of communicative reason or communicative rationality,
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that human beings possess the communicative competence to bring about such understanding
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born June 18, 1929) is a German sociologist and a philosopher in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism
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best known for his theory on the concepts of communicative rationality and the public sphere
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ocuses on the foundations of social theory and epistemology, the analysis of advanced capitalistic societies and democracy, the rule of law in a critical social-evolutionary context, and contemporary politics, particularly German politics
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According to Habermas, a variety of factors resulted in the eventual decay of the public sphere, including the growth of a commercial mass media, which turned the critical public into a passive consumer public; and the welfare state, which merged the state with society so thoroughly that the public sphere was squeezed out
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An "ideal speech situation"[18] requires participants to have the same capacities of discourse, social equality and their words are not confused by ideology or other errors
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Habermas feels that the postmodernists are animated by normative sentiments but the nature of those sentiments is concealed from the reader.
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- Is a public culture of reason and ordered liberty possible in our post-metaphysical age?
- Is philosophy permanently cut adrift from its grounding in being and anthropology?
- Does this decline of rationality signal an opportunity or a deep crisis for religion itself?
In early 2007, Ignatius Press published a dialogue between Habermas and Roman Catholic Pontiff Pope Benedict XVI, entitled The Dialectics of Secularization.
It addresses such important contemporary questions as these:
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Born in Düsseldorf, Rhine Province, in 1929,
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Habermas
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n his early teens, during World War II,
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He studied at the universities of Göttingen (1949/50), Zürich (1950/51), and Bonn (1951–54) and earned a doctorate in philosophy from Bonn in 1954
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From 1956 on, he studied philosophy and sociology under the critical theorists Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main Institute for Social Research,
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he was offered the position of "extraordinary professor" (professor without chair) of philosophy at the University of Heidelberg (at the instigation of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Karl Löwith) in 196
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In 1964, strongly supported by Adorno, Habermas returned to Frankfurt to take over Horkheimer's chair in philosophy and sociology.
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He accepted the position of Director of the Max Planck Institute in Starnberg (near Munich) in 1971, and worked there until 1983, two years after the publication of his magnum opus, The Theory of Communicative Action.
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He also holds the uncharacteristically postmodern position of "Permanent Visiting" Professor at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and "Theodor Heuss Professor" at The New School, New York.
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The Public Role of Religion in Secular Context, regarding the evolution of separation of Church and State from neutrality to intense secularism
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[edit] Teacher and mentor
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the Marxian tradition — both the theory of Karl Marx himself as well as the critical neo-Marxian theory of the Frankfurt School,
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the linguistic philosophy and speech act
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Jürgen Habermas considers his major contribution to be the development of the concept and theory of communicative reason or communicative rationality, which distinguishes itself from the rationalist tradition by locating rationality in structures of interpersonal linguistic communication rather than in the structure of either the cosmos or the knowing subject.
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Within sociology, Habermas's major contribution was the development of a comprehensive theory of societal evolution and modernization focusing on the difference between communicative rationality and rationalization on the one hand and strategic/instrumental rationality and rationalization on the other.
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Habermas's works resonate within the traditions of Kant and the Enlightenment and of democratic socialism through his emphasis on the potential for transforming the world and arriving at a more humane, just, and egalitarian society through the realization of the human potential for reason, in part through discourse ethics
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Within sociology, Habermas's major contribution was the development of a comprehensive theory of societal evolution and modernization focusing on the difference between communicative rationality and rationalization on the one hand and strategic/instrumental rationality and rationalization on the other. This includes a critique from a communicative standpoint of the differentiation-based theory of social systems developed by Niklas Luhmann, a student of Talcott Parsons.
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His defence of modernity and civil society has been a source of inspiration to others, and is considered a major philosophical alternative to the varieties of poststructuralism. He has also offered an influential analysis of late capitalism.
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Reconstructive science
Habermas introduces the concept of “reconstructive science” with a double purpose: to place the “general theory of society” between philosophy and social science and re-establish the rift between the “great theorization” and the “empirical research”. T
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Habermas argues that prior to t
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Habermas argues that prior to the 18th century, European culture had been dominated by a "representational" culture, where one party sought to "represent" itself on its audience by overwhelming its subjects.
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he Öffentlichkeit culture was characterized by a dialogue as individuals either met in conversation, o
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e French Revolution was in large part caused by the collapse of "representational" culture, and its replacement by Öffentlichkeit culture.[10] T
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edia, which turned the critical public into a passive consumer public;
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Habermas has expressed optimism about the possibility of the revival of the public sphere.[14] He discerns a hope for the future where the representative democracy-reliant nation-state is replaced by a deliberative democracy-reliant political organism based on the equal rights and obligations of citizens.[14] In such direct democracy-driven system, the activist public sphere is needed for debates on matters of public importance and as well as the mechanism for that discussion to affect the decision-making process.
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abermas's notion of the public sphere is antiquated due to the proliferation of mass-media communications.
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that a public sphere as a place of purely rational independent debate never existed.
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Modernity versus Postmodernity" (1981), which has achieved wide recognition
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"should try to hold on to the intentions of the Enlightenment, feeble as they may be, or should we declare the entire project of modernity a lost cause?"[16
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he failures of the twentieth centu
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Habermas has several main criticisms of postmodernism.
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First, the postmodernists are equivocal about whether they are producing serious theory or literature.
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Second, Habermas feels that the postmodernists are animated by normative sentiments but the nature of those sentiments is concealed from the reader.
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Third, Habermas accuses postmodernism of being a totalizing perspective that fails "to differentiate phenomena and practices that occur within modern society".[16
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y, Habermas asserts that postmodernists ignore that which Habermas finds absolutely central - namely, everyd
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locating rationality in structures of interpersonal linguistic communication rather than in the structure of either the cosmos or the knowing subject.
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that all speech acts have an inherent telos (the Greek word for "end") — the goal of mutual understanding, and that human beings possess the communicative competence to bring about such understanding
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difference between communicative rationality and rationalization on the one hand and strategic/instrumental rationality and rationalization on the other.
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institutionalization of the potential for rationality that is inherent in the communicative competence that is unique to the human species. Habermas contends that communicative competence has developed through the course of evolution, but in contemporary society it is often suppressed or weakened by the way in which major domains of social life, such as the market, the state, and organizations, have been given over to or taken over by strategic/instrumental rationality, so that the logic of the system supplants that of the lifeworld.
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abermas identifies "representational" culture as corresponding to the feudal stage of development according to Marxist theory, arguing that the coming of the capitalist stage of development marked the appearance of Öffentlichkeit (the public sphere).[4] In the culture characterized by Öffentlichkeit, there occurred a public space outside of the control by the state, where individuals exchanged views and knowledge.[5] In Habermas's view, the growth in newspapers, journals, reading clubs, Masonic lodges, and coffee-houses in 18th century Europe, all in different ways, marked the gradual replacement of "representational" culture with Öffentlichkeit culture.[6] Habermas argued that the essential characteristic of the Öffentlichkeit culture was its "critical" nature.
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Öffentlichkeit culture was characterized by a dialogue as individuals either met in conversation, or exchanged views via the print media
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the collapse of "representational" culture, and its replacement by Öffentlichkeit culture.
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decay of the public sphere, including the growth of a commercial mass media
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he welfare state, which merged the state with society so thoroughly that the public sphere was squeezed out
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turned the "public sphere" into a site of self-interested contestation for the resources of the state rather than a space for the development of a public-minded rational consensus.
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routinized political parties and interest groups substitute for participatory democracy, society is increasingly administered at a level remote from input of citizens. As a result, boundaries between public and private, the individual and society, the system and the lifeworld are deteriorating.
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truth is what would be agreed upon in an ideal speech situation.
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Universalistic egalitarianism, from which sprang the ideals of freedom and a collective life in solidarity, the autonomous conduct of life and emancipation, the individual morality of conscience, human rights and democracy, is the direct legacy of the Judaic ethic of justice and the Christian ethic of love.
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the public sphere, which emerged in the eighteenth century in Europe as a space of critical discussion, open to all
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"representational" culture
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the capitalist stage of development marked the appearance of Öffentlichkeit (the public sphere)
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outside of the control by the state, where individuals exchanged views and knowledg
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eplacement of "representational" culture with Öffentlichkeit culture
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the essential characteristic of the Öffentlichkeit culture was its "critical" nature
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the French Revolution was in large part caused by the collapse of "representational" culture, and its replacement by Öffentlichkeit culture
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the deceptive nature of free institutions in the West
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the eventual decay of the public sphere
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turned the critical public into a passive consumer public; and the welfare state, which merged the state with society so thoroughly that the public sphere was squeezed out
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"those who have accused me of reducing philosophy to literature or logic to rhetoric ... have visibly and carefully avoided reading me"[
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but groups in the academy “conducted a kind of ‘war’, in which we ourselves never took part, either personally or directly”
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Dante-Gabryell MonsonHabermas's theoretical system is devoted to revealing the possibility of reason, emancipation, and rational-critical communication latent in modern institutions and in the human capacity to deliberate and pursue rational interests.
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