Intersubjectivity - interactionist or discursive? Reflections on Habermas' critique of Brandom

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dc.contributor.authorStrydom, Piet
dc.contributor.funderHigher Education Authority
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-04T11:26:12Z
dc.date.available2019-04-04T11:26:12Z
dc.date.issued2006-03-01
dc.date.updated2019-04-04T11:19:55Z
dc.description.abstractThis article argues that there is a marked ambivalence in Habermas' concept of intersubjectivity in that he wavers between an interactionist and a discursive understanding. This ambivalence is demonstrated with reference to his recent critique of Robert Brandom's normative pragmatic theory of discursive practice. Although Habermas is a leading theorist of discourse as an epistemically steered process, he allows his interpretation of Brandom's theory as suffering from objective idealism to compel him to recoil from discourse and to defend a purely interactionist or dialogical position. It is argued that the ambivalence in question is related to Habermas' incomplete theorization of communication as a process of structure formation that unfolds sequentially through time on different levels. His architectonic of communicative intersubjectivity is marred by a missing concept. His characteristic concept of coordination is insufficient and must be complemented by a concept of synthesis at the discursive level.en
dc.description.sponsorshipHigher Education Authority (Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions, Cycle 3, 2002–5)
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionAccepted Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationStrydom, P. (2006) 'Intersubjectivity - interactionist or discursive? Reflections on Habermas' critique of Brandom', Philosophy and Social Criticism, 32(2), pp. 155-172. doi: 10.1177/0191453706061090en
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0191453706061090en
dc.identifier.eissn1461-734X
dc.identifier.endpage172en
dc.identifier.issn0191-4537
dc.identifier.issued2en
dc.identifier.journaltitlePhilosophy and Social Criticismen
dc.identifier.startpage155en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/7709
dc.identifier.volume32en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSAGE Publicationsen
dc.relation.urihttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0191453706061090
dc.rights© 2006, SAGE Publications. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.en
dc.subjectBrandomen
dc.subjectCommunicationen
dc.subjectCoordinationen
dc.subjectDiscursiveen
dc.subjectSynthesisen
dc.subjectHabermasen
dc.subjectLuhmannen
dc.subjectObjectivismen
dc.subjectProcessen
dc.subjectSequentialityen
dc.subjectStructure formationen
dc.subjectTimeen
dc.titleIntersubjectivity - interactionist or discursive? Reflections on Habermas' critique of Brandomen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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