Habermasian Ideal Speech: Dreaming the (Im)possible Dream

Authors

M. M. Day, University of WollongongFollow

Publication Date

1993

Recommended Citation

Day, M. M., Habermasian Ideal Speech: Dreaming the (Im)possible Dream, School of Accounting & Finance, University of Wollongong, Working Paper 13, 1993.
https://ro.uow.edu.au/accfinwp/100

Abstract

In this paper I amplify Habermas's eclecticism, and draw on a variety of pedagogic, psychologic, philosophic, and feminist literature to explore and critique the Habermasian Ideal Speech Situation (ISS). I believe that ISS, as the intersection of various ontological positions, has implications for our daily practices, and I illustrate how these might be transformed. Thus, I am proclaiming ISS as an catalyst for reflexive considerations of our ontological positions, and for instigating transformative processes.