Jezičko-pragmatička kritika
Linguistic-pragmatic Critique

Author(s): Marjan Ivković , Ana Lipij
Subject(s): Epistemology, Pragmatism, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism
Published by: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Keywords: Linguistic Pragmatism; Epistemological Critique; Reductionism; Holism; Communicative Action;
Summary/Abstract: In this chapter, we will deal with a line of thought that had a significant impact in twentieth-century philosophy and social theory—the linguistic-pragmatic approach, that is, linguistic-pragmatic criticism. We define this tradition as "critical", i.e. as a significant variety of understanding and practicing criticism in the humanities and social sciences, because its modus operandi corresponds to the strict, Kantian sense of the term criticism — insight into the conditions of the possibility of human knowledge, that is, the human world in general. Namely, the linguistic-pragmatic approach places the phenomenon of spoken language, i.e. the practical use of language, in its center and, as we will see, finds in it a foundation for criticizing various positions in philosophy and social theory that we could define as "reductionist" in the broadest sense.

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