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Social pathologies and ideologies in light of Jürgen Habermas: a new interpretation of the thesis of colonisation

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  • César Ortega-Esquembre

    (University of Valencia)

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This paper analyses the role that the critique of ideologies plays within Jürgen Habermas’ Critical Theory. I offer a reinterpretation of the thesis of colonisation of lifeworld in light of a specific reading of the critique of ideologies, trying to show that this thesis can be interpreted as a case of critique of ideologies. To do so, I firstly present a brief general map of the different forms of social critique present today in social philosophy by placing special emphasis on the critique of ideologies. Secondly, I briefly state Habermas’ diagnosis on the colonisation of lifeworld by differentiating the two levels of critique which are, in my view, contained within the theory of communicative action: critique as the discursive redemption of validity claims by participants and critique as an observer’s social diagnosis. Lastly, I confront these two levels of critique with the form of critique of ideologies analysed in the first point and conclude that we can refer to the second level as a case of a critique of ideologies.

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  • César Ortega-Esquembre, 2020. "Social pathologies and ideologies in light of Jürgen Habermas: a new interpretation of the thesis of colonisation," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 7(1), pages 1-9, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palcom:v:7:y:2020:i:1:d:10.1057_s41599-020-00563-2
    DOI: 10.1057/s41599-020-00563-2
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