Jürgen Habermas or Criticism of Pragmatics of Communication: the Possibilities of a Social Dialogue

Abstract

This article seeks to analyse Jurgen Habermas’ concept of communicative action and its links to a number of theoretical issues that connect it, in particular, to Max Weber. In this context, the idea of an argumentative rationality seems to be an intermediate concept between instrumental reason and normative ethics, in which (Universal) pragmatics becomes a means of guiding discourse through clarifying the ideal conditions for a social dialogue as political praxis, in order to overcome the constraints between life-world and system.