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It is important to note that Habermas seeks to liberate dialectical accounts of
factuality and thus render truth and knowledge more contingent than conventional
accounts of modernity. He hopes to uncover possibilities for practical (seeking
understanding) and emancipatory (free from systemic oppression) forms of rationality to
replace the overly technicized language of contemporary reasoning (Mumby 15). Dennis
Mumby explains:
Habermas is a modernist who (a) replaces the sovereign subject with an
intersubjective model of rationality, (b) presents a dialectical consensus -- rather
than a correspondence or representational -- theory of truth rooted in a model of
communicative rationality and intersubjective understanding, (c) views
communication as constitutive of (not merely representative of) human
(Lifeworld) experience and social reality, and (d) articulates a theory of
communication that is also a theory of society (11).
However, since the publics discussed in Habermas's account are mostly wealthy
white males, the applicability of his historical analysis has been called into question.
Indeed, Habermas has been criticized extensively for investing too much faith in the open
exchange of ideas and for providing little guidance with regard to opening spaces of
public discussion without also simultaneously limiting the access of other discursive
communities to the means of communication (Fraser 79; Polan 265; Negt and Kluge 28).
Nonetheless, the existence of an intersubjective field of deliberation engaged in dialogue
concerning the nature of collective action is difficult to deny, and Habermas' insights
began this vital discussion by uncovering the ways in which argument is subverted by the
totalizing practices of public communication. Doxtader described this process:42
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Mueller, Eric. The Terministic Filter of Security: Realism, Feminism and International Relations Theory, thesis, December 2001; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3040/m1/45/: accessed June 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .