On the Failure of Habermas's Hermeneutic Objectivism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2408028 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kyung-Man Kim (0000-0001-9826-7747), Kyung‐man Kim (0000-0002-6760-2319, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 270-298 |
| Publication date | 2002-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Culture Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1532-7086 • E-ISSN: 1552-356X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/153270860200200216 |
| OpenAlex | W1975253224 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 25 |
In this article, the author first argues that Habermas's distinction between the two modes of language use that, he alleges, are central to the two starkly different modes of human cognitive activities, that is, analytical-empirical sciences and hermeneutics, is untenable and should be eventually abandoned. For, contrary to Habermas's argument, the analytical-empirical sciences, if they are to be properly understood, must also be conceptualized as involving the performative mode of language use that Habermas thinks is characteristic of hermeneutics only. Second, by using historical examples, the author proceeds to demonstrate why Habermas's hermeneutic objectivism that is based on the methodology of rational reconstruction is doomed to remain wedded to the epistemological foundationalism that he wants to displace by introducing his methodology of rational reconstruction
Argument (complex analysis · Epistemology · Foundationalism · Hermeneutics · Human science · Objectivism · Performative utterance · Premise · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies · Philosophy
Scientific Practice and Ordinary Action
The Structure of Scientific Inference
T. S. Kuhn and Social Science
The Great Devonian Controversy
How Experiments End
The structure of scientific revolutions
Studies in ethnomethodology
Knowledge and social imagery
Interpretive Social Science
The Rules of Art
The Logic of Practice
The peculiar history of scientific reason
Truth and Freedom
The growth of science in society
A reappraisal of Habermas's Theory of Communicative Action in light of detailed investigations of social praxis
History as Narrative
The Mangle of Practice
In Other Words
African Traditional Thought and Western Science
Private Irony and Public Decency
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,22 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2018 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |