Towards a theory of communicational feeling. Sensetizing Habermas
This paper attempts at an internal and reconstructive critique of the Theoy of communicative action. Referring to theorists directly relevant to Habermas (Peirce, Bühler, Mead), the author pleads for a « sensitisation » of the model of rationality elaborated by the german philosopher, as a condition for a better capacity of description of situations and processes of communication, that is, for an increased realism of the theory: a semiotic realism, by taking into consideration of the instability of meaning in communicative interactions, and of the various regimes of signs taking part in semioses (Peirce); an ecological realism, through a greater attention to the concrete situations, the bodies and the environments of communication (Mead).