Towards a phenomenological contribution for social criticism: A critique of the normative conceptions of the lifeworld in Habermas

This article will attempt to show how Habermas turns away from a critical-phenomenological perspective and towards an analytic and pragmatic understanding of language and society. I want to point out that there is minimal phenomenology in Habermas’ appropriation of the con...

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Author: Pontin, Fabricio
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2022
Country:Brasil
Institution:Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)
Repository:Civitas - Revista de Ciências Sociais (Porto Alegre. Online)
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br:article/41208
Online Access:https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/civitas/article/view/41208
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Intersubjetividade transcendental
Fenomenologia
Teoria critica
Mundo da vida
Intersubjetividad trascendental
Fenomenología
Teoría crítica
Mundo vivido
Transcendental Intersubjectivity
Phenomenology
Critical Theory
Lifeworld
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Summary:This article will attempt to show how Habermas turns away from a critical-phenomenological perspective and towards an analytic and pragmatic understanding of language and society. I want to point out that there is minimal phenomenology in Habermas’ appropriation of the concept of Lebenswelt. I concede that Habermas provides us with a fascinating re-assessment of some classical elements in the philosophy of Edmund Husserl, but in his “Critique of Functionalist Reason,” he seems to abandon most of the methodological elements that would allow us to call his own method “phenomenological.”