Is Existence Possible and what does it Mean to Be Beyond the Power of Communicative Discourse?

• Main Author: Ieva Aurylaitė
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Vilnius Gediminas Technical University 2015-07-01
• Series: Santalka: Filosofija, Komunikacija
• Subjects: deconstruction; genealogy method; the theory of communicative action method; reconstruction; transgression
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/cpc.2015.212

This article analyses Michel Foucault’s and Jürgen Habermas’ debate, it examines in more detail the interpretation of the theory of communicative action and genealogy methods and their applicability. Although this debate has already been widely analyzed and discussed in the public academic community, the uniqueness of this paper is in going deep into the motifs of the deconstruction and reconstruction, revealed from the transgression perspective. It is important to find out, whether the destabilization of social forms has some influence on the occurrence of deconstruction, if reconstruction does not constitute the hierarchy of causative relationship, leading to the one – way (one – sidedness) granted claims to universality. Basing on the notion of the transgression concept which indicates the precondition of the motif of the irreversibility of events and the motif of the possibility of the repeatedness of similar events, it can be stated that reconstruction and deconstruction play an important role in the originating of emergentisms in social sciences. The aims of the article are to enrich the standard overlying classification requirements, raised by the classical social methodology, with the new opportunities of style recognition, providing the artistic style with equal alignment pretensions to the priorities of social research theory requirements.