Habermas and the criticism of Linguisticism (Toward a Transcendental Approach in Political Philosophy)

Subject Areas : Journal of Law and Politics

Dr. Mahdi Abedi ¹ (ندارد)

Received: 2015-07-13 Accepted : 2015-07-13 Published : 2008-06-21

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Abstract :

Philosophy in the 20th century (and accoridingly Political Philosophy) has been surprisinglypreoccupied by the issue of Language. The emergence of Analytic Philosophies, HermeneuticSchools, Structural Linguistics (Ferdinand de Saussure) and the emphasis put on the lingualcharacteristics of «Existence» by Existentialist Philosophers such as Heidegger on the one hand,and Post-Structural criticisms concerning the linguistic concepts- held by Lyotard and Drida,have totally made Philosophy «language-embodied». However, in Liberization which isconsidered by Habermas the supplementary part of un-completed project of Modernity,Exagurative Linguisticsm is considered the main obstacle against Ideology criticism. Insisting theTranscendental position out of language domain is a pathway for Liberization from a completelylanguage-embodied world.This research has been seeking for such a critical possibility. We suppose that the ExagurativeLinguistism prevents Ideology criticism. In order to fully cover the thought of Liberization, it isnecessary to adopt a Pre-Lingual and Pre-Hermeneutical supposition and to apply the languagewhich can be part of Ideological Hegemony, in favor of criticizing the Ideology and from thatpoint, language should serve Ideology criticism.