Habermas and the Other Side of Modernity

This essay tries to critique the concept of modernity through a discussion of Jürgen Habermas' communicative rationality and modernity as an unfinished project. Habermas tried to defend modernity conceived as communicative rationality by strengthening everyday communicative action against the i...

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Published in:	Ethiopian journal of the social sciences and humanities : EJOSSAH Vol. 8; no. 1; pp. 31 - 60
Main Author:	Merawi, F
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Addis Ababa Addis Ababa University 01-06-2012
Subjects:	Communication communicative action communicative rationality Cultural criticism Habermas, Jürgen Modernism modernity Philosophy
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Summary:	This essay tries to critique the concept of modernity through a discussion of Jürgen Habermas' communicative rationality and modernity as an unfinished project. Habermas tried to defend modernity conceived as communicative rationality by strengthening everyday communicative action against the instrumental rationality of the economy and the state. After considering the insights of transmodernist, African, feminist and intercultural thinkers on modernity, I will try to show how the conventional understanding of modernity as progressive and reflective fails to fully address issues of otherness and domination. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:	1810-4487 2520-582X
DOI:	10.4314/ejossah.v8i1.2