Language and lifeworld: Schutz and Habermas on idealization

Jan Strassheim

doi:10.15448/1984-7289.2017.3.27866

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Jan Strassheim Faculty of Letters, Keio University

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https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-7289.2017.3.27866

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Teorias da comunicação. Tipificação. Regras linguísticas. Fenomenologia do mundo-da-vida. John Searle.

Resumen

Jürgen Habermas seminally criticized Alfred Schutz. This paper traces the disagreement back to a different role of idealization. Schutz’s social theory is based on “types” as idealizations with an inherent dynamics, while Habermas’s social theory is based on ideally stable “rules”. First, a rule model of linguistic communication is assessed against analyses from linguistics and the philosophy and sociology of language. A rule model, it is found, fails to meet its theoretical goal of explaining linguistic communication. Hypothetical rules of language would not explain our intuitive understanding of the minimal propositional contents expressed by utterances. The rules would be both insufficient and unreliable in every single instance of language use. Against this background, the relation between language and “lifeworld” is then re-evaluated. A lifeworld cannot build on a rule model of language as its foundation. Nor can it supplement such a model in order to save it. Unlike a rule model, Schutz’s claim that language and lifeworld are interconnected and structured by “types” that can accommodate the flexibility and precision of linguistic communication. While further research is needed, this conclusion indicates that phenomenology has been unduly neglected in social philosophy and should receive as much attention as it has in sociology.

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Jan Strassheim, Faculty of Letters, Keio University

PhD. in Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin (Germany). Guest researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of Letters, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

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