Understanding Habermas: The Ideal Speech Community
By Hercules Bantas
- Release Date: 2012-02-04
- Genre: Philosophy
Description
This essay length guide examines Habermas's theory of the Ideal Speech Community, which is a combination of speech act theory and Kantian moral theory. Topics covered include a brief examination of critical theory and its origins, different types of speech acts and the validity claims they make, the world creation criteria that validate speech acts, and the principle of universalisation.
