PS390 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Ideal Speech Situation, Linguistic Turn, Psych
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Habermas also concerned about the status of individuals in a world of inequities. Each self is composed of three aspects: a natural world, a social world, and an inner reflective world. All three are under siege bc of the daily difficulties in trying to understand one another. Individuals" difficulties primarily pertain to problems of communication and interpretation, hence his concern w ideal speech situations (see below) In his attempt to develop an epistemological foundation for critical theory he incorporated. This linguistic turn of critical theory indicated a shift away from its marxian roots and was central for his communicative foundation for social theory. Analyzed relationship b/w knowledge and interests and delineated 3 qualitatively different categories of science, each guided by a different interest: empirical-analytic (natural sciences), historical-hermeneutical (interpretive sciences), and critical sciences (psychoanalysis) Can apply his conception of different knowledge-functions to three types of psych; natural-science, human-science, and critical.
