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| Terminology: This section explains special features of the language used by the individual authors. _____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Jürgen Habermas on Terminology - Dictionary of Arguments
IV 188 Reference context/terminology/Habermas: In a sense, the world to which the communication participants belong is always present, but only in such a way that it forms the background for a current scene: the context of reference. IV 189 Lifeworld/Habermas: If we give up the basic concepts of consciousness philosophy in which Husserl deals with the problem of the life world, we can think of the life world represented by a culturally handed down and linguistically organised inventory of patterns of interpretation. Then the context of reference must no longer be explained in the context of phenomenology and psychology of perception, but as IV 190 a connection of meaning between a communicative utterance, the context and the connotative horizon of meaning. Reference contexts go back to grammatically regulated relationships between elements of a linguistically organized inventory of knowledge. IV 209 Def Culture/Habermas: I call culture the inventory of knowledge from which the communication participants provide themselves with interpretations by communicating about something in a world. Def Society/Habermas: I call society the legitimate orders through which communication participants regulate their affiliation to social groups and thus ensure solidarity. Def Personality/Habermas: By personality I understand the competences that make a subject capable of speaking and acting, i.e. repairing, participating in processes of communication and thereby asserting one's own identity. Semantics/Habermas: the semantic field of symbolic contents form dimensions in which the communicative actions extend. Medium/Habermas: the interactions interwoven into the network of everyday communicative practice form the medium through which culture, society and person reproduce themselves. These reproductive processes extend to the symbolic structures of the lifeworld. We must differentiate between the preservation of the material substrate of the lifeworld. IV 260 Norm/Terminology/Habermas: Norm = generalized behavioral expectation. Principles: = higher-level norms. IV 278 Form of communication/terminology/Habermas: Structural violence is exercised through a systematic restriction of communication; it is anchored in the formal conditions of communicative action in such a way that the connection between objective, social and subjective world is typically prejudiced for the communication participants. For this relative a priori of understanding I would like to introduce the concept of the form of communication in analogy to the a priori of knowledge of the form of object (Lukács). IV 413 Def Control Media/terminology/Habermas: are those media that replace language as a mechanism for action coordination . Def communication media/Habermas: are such media that merely simplify over-complex contexts of communication-oriented action, but remain dependent on language and on a lifeworld. IV 536 Def Legal Institution/Terminology/Habermas: I call legal institutions legal norms, which cannot be sufficiently legitimized by the positivistic reference to procedures. E.g. the foundations of constitutional law, the principles of criminal law and criminal procedure. As soon as they are questioned, the reference to their legality is not sufficient. They require material justification because they belong to the legitimate orders of the lifeworld itself and, together with informal norms of action, form the background of communicative action. IV 539 Def Inner colonization/Habermas: this thesis states that as a result of capitalist growth, the subsystems of economy and state become more and more complex and penetrate deeper and deeper into the symbolic reproduction of the lifeworld. IV 548 The thesis makes it possible to analyze processes of real abstraction, to which Marx had an eye, without using an equivalent of value theory (see Value Theory/Habermas). III 144 Def Action/Habermas: Actions are only what I call such symbolic expressions with which the actor, as in teleological, norm-regulated and dramaturgical action, makes a reference to at least one world (the physical, the consciousness or the mentally divided world) but always also to the objective world. From these I distinguish between body movements and secondary operations. III 70 Def Critique/Habermas: I speak of criticism instead of discourse whenever arguments are used, without the participants having to assume that the conditions for a speech situation free of external and internal constraints are fulfilled. Aesthetic critique is about opening the eyes of participants, i. e. leading them to an authenticating aesthetic perception. III 412 Def Meaning/Communicative Action/Habermas: within our theory of communicative action, the meaning of an elementary expression consists in the contribution it makes to the meaning of an acceptable speech action. And to understand what a speaker wants to say with such an act, the listener must know the conditions under which he can be accepted. III 41 Def rationality/culture/Habermas: we call a person rational who interprets his or her nature of need in the light of culturally well-coordinated value standards, but especially when he or she is able to adopt a reflexive attitude towards the standards of value that interpret needs. IV 251 Def Productive Forces/Marx/Habermas: According to Marx, productive forces consist of a) the labour force of those working in production, the producers; b) the technically usable knowledge, insofar as it is converted into productivity-increasing work tools, into production techniques; c) organisational knowledge, insofar as it is used to set workers in motion efficiently, to qualify workers and to effectively coordinate the division of labour cooperation of the workers. IV 252 The productive forces determined the degree of possible availability of natural processes. IV 252 Def Relations of Production/Marx/Habermas: relations of production are those institutions and social mechanisms that determine how the labour force, at a given level of productive forces, is combined with the available means of production. The regulation of access to the means of production or the way in which the socially used workforce is controlled also indirectly determines the distribution of socially generated wealth. Relations of production express the distribution of social power; they prejudice the structure of interests that exists in a society with the distribution pattern of socially recognized opportunities of the satisfaction of needs. IV 203 Def Situation/Habermas: the situation includes everything that can be seen as a restriction for (...) action initiatives. While the actor retains the environment as a resource for communication-oriented action, the restrictions imposed by the circumstances of the implementation of his plans are part of the situation. III 400 Def Understanding/Communication/Habermas: in our theory of communicative action we limit ourselves to acts of speech under standard conditions, i.e. we assume that a speaker means nothing else than the literal meaning of what he/she says. Understanding a sentence is then defined as knowing what makes that sentence acceptable. From the speaker's perspective, the conditions of acceptability are identical to the conditions of his/her illocutionary success. Acceptability is not defined in an objective sense from the perspective of an observer, but from the performative attitude of the communication participant. IV 270 Def Knowledge/Habermas: I use "knowledge" in a broader sense that covers everything that can be acquired through learning as well as through the appropriation of cultural tradition, which extends to both cognitive and social integrative, i.e. to expressive and moral-practical elements._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Ha I J. Habermas Der philosophische Diskurs der Moderne Frankfurt 1988 Ha III Jürgen Habermas Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. I Frankfurt/M. 1981 Ha IV Jürgen Habermas Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. II Frankfurt/M. 1981 |
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