Habermas and the methodology of modern science, which he is unwilling to discard. His strategy instead is an attempt to delimit science’s legitimate application, sharply distinguishing technical rea son from the related categories of normative and theoretical discourse.
Habermas makes an important distinction between discourse about society which addresses questions of truth, and discourse that addresses social norms. Such discourse, which we may call social hermeneutics or, following Habermas, practical discourse, seeks to grasp its object of study precisely as part of a humanly formed, subjectivity-disclosing system. It is this distinction that is obscured by the handbook generalization about the facts of the case: we make the facts as much as we find them. The empirical sciences seek to establish technical control over their objects; hermeneutics seeks to open its objects to comprehension as forms of intersubjective communication.
Toward A Rhetoric of Intersubjectivity: Introducing Jürgen Habermas
Hugh H. Grady and Susan Wells
Habermas makes an important distinction between discourse about society which addresses questions of truth, and discourse that addresses social norms. Such discourse, which we may call social hermeneutics or, following Habermas, practical discourse, seeks to grasp its object of study precisely as part of a humanly formed, subjectivity-disclosing system. It is this distinction that is obscured by the handbook generalization about the facts of the case: we make the facts as much as we find them. The empirical sciences seek to establish technical control over their objects; hermeneutics seeks to open its objects to comprehension as forms of intersubjective communication.
Toward A Rhetoric of Intersubjectivity: Introducing Jürgen Habermas
Hugh H. Grady and Susan Wells
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