Habermas

Main Distinctions:

• Lifeworld/ System (215)
• Lifeworld as potentially rational discussion of ends and means (ideal speech situation)

• Claim Making & Consensus / Background Assumptions (pp220)

• Communicative Rationality/Instrumental Rationality

3 types of validity claims

• Truth (Science) / Normative (Social/Moral) /Subjective (Phenomenol- Authenticity/Sincerity)

Layder 218


Which areas of lifeworld susceptible to colonisation by system (power&capital&state) which are not - empirical research

Considered Objectivist/Modernist - Layder questions this

Habermas has been criticised for his emphasis on language, rational communication and reason, and negelecting the unconcious and the role of emotion.. (by lyotard foucalt etc) Layder 229 -237

However these factors (emotional and artistic nature) are  what Habermas claims that instrumental rationality denies people through its colonisation of the lifeworld...
also due to forces of mystification through expert interests ( c.f Latour Black box)


Layder on Habermas