Theory of Communicative Action (Habermas): consensus, utopia, paradigm

Abstract

This article does not intend to analyze the Habermas’ bodywork. But thinking exclusively the Theory of Communicative Action (TAC) first in relation to the theoretical ones that affirms to be based, later in the sense of his own logical articulation interns and finally in relation to his object of researches, the social reality. Its tries to demonstrate that TAC executes two conceptual turns essential: (a) one when limiting acting strategic to the space of the economy and the politics and (b) when defining culture, sociability and subjectivity as dimensions constituted in the world of the life.