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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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- Text Explore· ~12 min
Validity claims
The three types.
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- Argument Map· ~12 min
Mapping lifeworld colonisation
How the system invades the lifeworld.
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- Dialogue· ~12 min
Habermas vs postmodernists
Debate with Lyotard and Foucault.
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- Reflection· ~7 min
Communicative action online
Social media and the public sphere.
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