TY - GEN A1 - Demmerling, Christoph A1 - Krüger, Hans-Peter A1 - Habermas, Jürgen T1 - Communicative Reason Juergen Habermas, interviewed by Christoph Demmerling and Hans-Peter Krueger T2 - Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie : Zweimonatsschrift der internationalen philosophischen Forschung N2 - Jurgen Habermas explicates the concept of communicative reason. He explains the key assumptions of the philosophy of language and social theory associated with this concept. Also discussed is the category of life-world and the role of the body-mind difference for the consciousness of exclusivity in our access to subjective experience. as well as the role of emotions and perceptions in the context of a theory of communicative action. The question of the redemption of the various validity claims as they are associated with the performance of speech acts is related to processes of social learning and to the role of negative experiences. Finally the interview deals with the relationship between religion and reason and the importance of religion in modern, post-secular societies. Questions about the philosophical culture of our present times are discussed at the end of the conversation. KW - Jurgen Habermas KW - communicative action KW - communicative reason KW - critical theory KW - life-world KW - religion KW - post-secular society Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/dzph-2016-0061 SN - 0012-1045 SN - 2192-1482 VL - 64 SP - 806 EP - 827 PB - De Gruyter CY - Berlin ER -