Speaking Across Boundaries A Theoretical Study on Intercultural Relationship Focussing on the Communication Theory of Habermas

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Contemporary issues in the history of ideas Intellectual history and the history of philosophy The Great Chain ofBeing TheldeaofHistory Totem and taboo History and systems of thought Towards an archaeology Towards a genealogy Power/knowledge A diagram of the Middle Ages The politics of primogeniture The politics of truth Drawing the subject Subversions of the subject Cogito ergo sum Unefafon deparler Philosophy with a tuning fork The Proposal of Habermas for a Universal Foundation of Speech 76 Knowledge and Human Interests: A Social Theory of Knowledge 98 Functionalistic Theory of Action vis-a-vis Communicative Action 127 Mead`s Theory of Language and Ontogenesis 143 Vll Linguistification of the Normative Structure of Speech: Durkheim 156 Lifeworld vis-a-vis Parsons` System Theory of Society 171 Language Relationship 182 A Phenomenological Approach to Language Relationship 184 Linguistic Theories on Language Relationship: Wittgenstein and Peter Winch 193 Georg Gadamer`s Hermeneutic Theory of Language Relationship 207 Universal Pragmatics and Language Relationship 232 Final Words 253 A shift to consensually achievable positive rights 253 The inadequacy of speech act theory 256