HABERMAS' IDEAL SPEECH SITUATION

[Dimos Dimitriou]

hi kenneth.mackendrick,

could be possible to expand a bit more the argument about Maeve Cooke
position on Habermas instrumental / communicative use of language?
or even any net based referense / link?

thnx
dimos


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> Maeve Cooke has one of the most insightful arguments regarding Habermas's
> theory of language: that he is only able to grant *conceptual* priority of
> communicative action over instrumental action - ie. he can't
> fully vindicate
> the claim that all instrumental forms of language use are fundamentally
> parasitic on communicative utterances...but already I've gone on too much.
>
>