Name: Beyond Universal Pragmatics: Studies in the Philosophy of Communication
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Author: Grant, Colin B.
ISBN: 9783039119929

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Beyond Universal Pragmatics: Studies in the Philosophy of Communication

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Physical Book

Publisher

Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis

Author

Grant, Colin B.

Year

2010

Language

English

Pages

239

Format

Paperback

Weight

0.84

ISBN

3039119923

ISBN13

9783039119929

Synopsis "Beyond Universal Pragmatics: Studies in the Philosophy of Communication"

The explicit ambition of this collection is to move 'beyond' the Universal Pragmatics of Jürgen Habermas. It is without doubt an ambitious programme whose architect has led since the 1960s a series of reflections on the rational potential of western society from the Enlightenment to the present. However, this theoretical emphasis on the irreducibility of the rational content of debate cannot avoid abstracting communicative universals from the empirical communication practices which are always embedded in multiple contexts of discourse, identity, media and institutions. This tension in Habermas's oeuvre has developed an antagonistic potential. An example of this antagonism can be seen in the distorting effects of a normative theory of communication whose very normativity means turning a blind eye to a history of social communication. For example, Habermas infamously neglects the constitutive role played by the media in constructions of what is held to be 'public' and even his more recent revisions do not resolve this dilemma. The nine contributions in this volume from the fields of psychology, politics, media, epistemology and aesthetics set out to move beyond the influence of communicative universals and propose alternative approaches to the challenge of reconciling autonomy, interaction and social organisation.

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