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标题：Social pathologies and ideologies in light of Jrgen Habermas: a new interpretation of the thesis of colonisation
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作者：César Ortega-Esquembre
期刊名称：Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
电子版ISSN：2662-9992
出版年度：2020
卷号：7
期号：1
页码：1-9
DOI：10.1057/s41599-020-00563-2
语种：English
出版社：Springer
摘要：This paper analyses the role that the critique of ideologies plays within Jürgen Habermas’ Critical Theory. I offer a reinterpretation of the thesis of colonisation of lifeworld in light of a specific reading of the critique of ideologies, trying to show that this thesis can be interpreted as a case of critique of ideologies. To do so, I firstly present a brief general map of the different forms of social critique present today in social philosophy by placing special emphasis on the critique of ideologies. Secondly, I briefly state Habermas’ diagnosis on the colonisation of lifeworld by differentiating the two levels of critique which are, in my view, contained within the theory of communicative action: critique as the discursive redemption of validity claims by participants and critique as an observer’s social diagnosis. Lastly, I confront these two levels of critique with the form of critique of ideologies analysed in the first point and conclude that we can refer to the second level as a case of a critique of ideologies.