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Situations, philosophy: a situation is a more or less definable constellation of objects, actors, states, events, information and information channels. See also state, process, action, relations, descriptions, communication, context/context dependency, information, meaning, situation semantics, possible worlds, centered worlds, fine grained/coarse grained._____________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 Situations - Dictionary of Arguments
III 150 Situation/action situation/Habermas: a situation definition establishes an order. With it, the communication participants assign the various elements of the action situation to one of the three worlds (one objective, one social world and one subjective world as the entirety of the speaker's privilegedly accessible experiences). >Objective world, >Subjective world, >Social world. >Communicative action/Habermas, >Communication theory/Habermas, >Communication/Habermas, >Communicative practice/Habermas, >Communicative rationality/Habermas. In doing so, they incorporate the current situation of their preinterpreted lifeworld. Deviation of the situation definition by the opposite presents a different kind of problem. None of those involved has a monopoly on interpretation. >Interpretation. - - - IV 188 Situations/LifeWorld/Understanding/Habermas: for the participants, the action situation forms the centre of their life world; it has a moving horizon because it refers to the complexity of the life world: 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. As soon as such a reference context is included in a situation (...), it loses its triviality and unquestionable solidity. New information can be raised. >Life world/Habermas, >Language/Habermas. IV 189 Relevance: before it is explicitly mentioned, the facts of life are given only as a matter of course. From the perspective of the situation, the life world appears to be a reservoir of self-evidence or unshaken beliefs. >Background. These self-evident facts are mobilized when they become relevant to a situation. ((s) For today's discussion see also Frame Theories). IV 203 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. IV 204 These limitations can be sorted by facts, norms and experiences within the framework of the three formal world concepts. Theoretical status: the communication-theoretical concept of the life world developed from the participant's perspective... IV 206 ...is not directly useful for theoretical purposes; it is not suitable for delimiting an object area of social science, i.e. the region within the objective world that forms the totality of hermeneutically accessible, in the broadest sense historical or socio-cultural facts. The everyday concept of the life world is recommended for this purpose, with the help of which communicative actors locate and date themselves and their expressions in social spaces and historical times._____________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 |