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Habermas and Philosophy of Education

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Communicative action; Education; Interaction; Intersubjectivity; Life world (Lebenswelt)

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Jürgen Habermas (born 1929, in Düsseldorf, Germany), considered the greatest living German philosopher, of international renown, is also a critical intellectual, attentive to the new flows of argument and problematizations of society that may break down constellations of power and broaden inclusive relations. His main concern, ever since his work when young, has been loss of respect and of the meaning of human life and emancipation. His project intends to deal with this problem and produce a systematic grounding of rationality using a reconstructive analysis of the cognitive and normative contents of our practices. He thus moves away from a substantial indication of what a just society would be to investigate the conditions which make it possible for the subjects to deliberate about their lives through processes of understanding. This is a fascinating object that depends on...

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  1. Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Porto Alegre, Brazil

    Nadja Hermann

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  1. University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

    Michael A. Peters

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Hermann, N. (2016). Habermas and Philosophy of Education. In: Peters, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-532-7_324-1

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