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politicalintermediate5 steps · ~58 min

Can Rational Discourse Save Democracy?

Jürgen Habermas contrasts strategic manipulation with genuine communication and ties modernity's legitimacy crisis to the colonisation of the lifeworld by money and power. You'll work through validity claims and the ideal speech situation.

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  2. Text Explore· ~12 min

    Validity claims

    The three types.

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  3. Argument Map· ~12 min

    Mapping lifeworld colonisation

    How the system invades the lifeworld.

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  4. Dialogue· ~12 min

    Habermas vs postmodernists

    Debate with Lyotard and Foucault.

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  5. Reflection· ~7 min

    Communicative action online

    Social media and the public sphere.

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