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| Ideal speech community: Habermas's ideal speech community is a hypothetical community in which all members have equal opportunity to participate in rational discourse without coercion or manipulation. See also Communication theory, Communication, J. Habermas, Deliberative Democracy, Discourse, Discourse theory._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Jürgen Habermas on Ideal Speech Community - Dictionary of Arguments
IV 163 Communication community/ideal speech community/Habermas: the utopian design of an ideal speech community is misleading if one misunderstands it as a guide to a philosophy of history and misunderstands that the methodological significance of this design can only be limited. >Philosophy of history, >Progress, >Historiography. The construction of an unlimited and undistorted discourse can only be used for modern societies as a foil with the intention of making indistinct tendencies of development emerge in more garish contours. >Discourse, >Discourse theory. Following on from Mead and Durkheim, we can say that language not only serves to update, but increasingly also to achieve rationally motivated agreements. >Communicative action/Habermas, >Communication theory/Habermas, >Communication/Habermas, >Communicative practice/Habermas, >Communicative rationality/Habermas, >E. Durkheim, >G.H. Mead._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Ha I J. Habermas Der philosophische Diskurs der Moderne Frankfurt 1988 Ha III Jürgen Habermas Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. I Frankfurt/M. 1981 Ha IV Jürgen Habermas Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. II Frankfurt/M. 1981 |
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