Habermas’s Later Pragmatist Turn
Habermasian Reflections (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Habermas’s Later Pragmatist Turn By Ali Rizvi Robert Brandom describes pragmatism “as a movement centered on the primacy of the practical.” This primacy of practice over theory is manifested in Habermas’s writings in two ways. First, it emerges in his lifelong insistence on the primacy of “know how” (what he often calls intuitive knowledge) over “know...