Ep. 252: Habermas on Communication as Sociality (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
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🗓️ 14 September 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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On Jürgen Habermas' "Actions, Speech Acts, Linguistically Mediated Interactions, and the Lifeworld" (1998), with guest John Foster.
What's the relation between individuals and society? Habermas says that language has ethics built right into it: I'm trying to get you to agree with me, to engage in a cooperative enterprise of mutual understanding.
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| 0:19.3 | philosophy and behind the scenes issues regarding the show. |
| 0:30.1 | You're listening to the Partial Exam in Life, a podcast by some guys who are at one point |
| 0:33.7 | set on doing philosophy for a living but then thought better of it. Our question for episode |
| 0:37.0 | 252 is something like what's the relation of individual society? And we read Yergen Habermas' |
| 0:43.4 | Action Speech Acts, linguistically mediated interactions in the life world from 1998, |
| 0:48.4 | which is chapter 4 of On the Pragmatics of Communication. More information please visit |
| 0:52.6 | partiallyexaminlife.com. This is Mark Linson-Meier, making this speech act offer valid only for |
| 0:58.5 | limited time, so please fulfill the desired ill-accusionary effects of this request, |
| 1:01.8 | then A, understand what I'm saying, and B, act now. This is Seth Paskin, hoping to come to some kind |
| 1:07.6 | of rational understanding by the end of this episode. This is Wes All-One, living my best life |
| 1:13.7 | world in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This is Dylan Casey, purposefully active, trying to make linguistic |
| 1:20.8 | utterances about actions and speech acts in Madison, Wisconsin. This is John Foster, I'm trying not |
| 1:27.6 | to get caught up in any performative contradictions here in Cleveland, Ohio. Welcome John. Thank you. |
| 1:32.8 | This is really exciting for me. I've listened to this podcast for a long time but I was talking to |
| 1:36.8 | a friend of mine who's a professional philosopher if you will, and he was like looking at us and |
| 1:40.8 | oh my gosh, that's the greatest thing I've ever seen. That's a good start, John. |
| 1:46.2 | My thank-you question went up really high. But Seth mentioned this to me. I was excited for the |
| 1:52.1 | reason that Habermost not only is kind of interesting philosopher to sort of generally, but as Seth will |
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