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  1. (1 other version)Plural reconstruction: A method of critical theory for the analysis of emerging and contested political practices.Svenja Ahlhaus - 2021 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 48 (5):703-725.
    Philosophy & Social Criticism, Volume 48, Issue 5, Page 703-725, June 2022. In this article, I argue that Habermas’s method of rational reconstruction faces limitations when it comes to analysing newly emerging and contested political practices. As rational reconstruction aims to criticize existing practices by determining their normative meaning as reflected in the participants’ idealizing presuppositions, it reaches its limits where emerging and contested practices make it impossible to identify a shared self-understanding and a single participants’ perspective. Using the example (...)
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  • (1 other version)Plural reconstruction: A method of critical theory for the analysis of emerging and contested political practices.Svenja Ahlhaus - 2022 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 48 (5):703-725.
    In this article, I argue that Habermas’s method of rational reconstruction faces limitations when it comes to analysing newly emerging and contested political practices. As rational reconstruction aims to criticize existing practices by determining their normative meaning as reflected in the participants’ idealizing presuppositions, it reaches its limits where emerging and contested practices make it impossible to identify a shared self-understanding and a single participants’ perspective. Using the example of membership politics, I argue that this is often the case where (...)
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