CMN 3109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Anomie, Lifeworld, Frankfurt School

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 3109
• Professor: Dina Salha

Document Summary

Habermas: ideologies are false beliefs that are widely assumed as being true; functional false beliefs. People are funneled by administrative and economic systems into certain patterns of instrumentally rational behavior. For habermas the public sphere is both an ideology and an idea (inclusiveness, openness, tolerance, etc ). The public sphere was open and inclusive in principle . For habermas the availability of public sphere becomes a point where you can exponse these ideologies, critique them, challenge them and what are the best steps on what people consent on such things. Monopoly capitalism and welfare-state liberalism diminished human freedoms and depoliticized culture. Criticism of the work cult advanced by frankfurt school. Habermas sees work as an essential constituent of human subjectivity; the anthropological significance of work as necessity. We use instrumental reason anyway to survive, so work is actually an anthropological tool throughout history that we have used to survive.