Transformative Communication Radar: Practices, Action and Praxis Communication in Solidarity Economy Networks in Portugal and Catalonia

This article explores the transformational character of solidarity economy network communication in Portugal and Catalonia, focusing on the first two months of the crisis brought on by COVID-19. We assume that what these networks choose to convey (or remain silent on) in their public communications reflects their positions in the fields of action and values and their theoretical alignment, establishing an ethico-political orientation. Through the analysis of virtual content conveyed by solidarity economy organisations, we analyse the topics covered, the types of content and sources cited, and the level of demand in the discourse, as well as their individual, institutional and collective character. The results reveal very different communicative approaches in each of the cases analysed: from silence or total absence of communicative practices to what can be considered a transformational praxis communication, based on collective action challenging the structures of power and domination and pointing out ways to overcome them. The article proposes a transformative communication radar linking Habermas’s theory of communicative action and Fuchs’s Marxist-inspired praxis communication concept, as a way of distinguishing merely instrumental communicative approaches from those guided by communicative and cooperative rationality driving new agreements and societal transformations.

Keeping the personality in the information societies

The purpose of the paper is to define how the sociopolitical thought of J. Habermas – his theory of communicative action and the concept of deliberative democracy – guarantees the protection and keeping of an independent human personality in modern information societies. In order to solve this problem, the author seeks to determine what is meant by a “personality”. Analyzing this issue, the author distinguishes two different understandings of a personality among J. Habermas’s works: philosophical-personalistic and public-sociological. When integrating these understandings, the author gives an original socio-philosophical definition of a personality, in which the personality retains both individualistic and social traits. It is especially emphasized that for the affirmation of the personality and his/her development, an equal, subject-subject dialogue with Others is necessary. The paper reveals that the development of personality, first of all, is interrelated with the maintenance of a cultural, normative and valuable “life-world”, which is violated by the mechanisms of systematic technocratic regulation in modern times, in a society. The principles of this regulation are justified in a system-functional approach. The advantages of J. Habermas’s approach, capable of ensuring the development of a genuine normative essence of personality, are determined

Problems and Solutions of Teachers’ Evaluation Activities in Colleges and Universities in China

Teacher evaluation is the action guide of teachers, which is extremely important for the development of schools. The establishment of a scientific and effective evaluation for university teachers is the key step in adapting to the current “double first-class” background in the construction of high-level teachers. Based on Habermas’ theory of communicative action, this study analyzes the shortcomings and the reasons behind the current evaluation activities of university teachers in China as well as explores the standardization of these evaluation activities to meet the needs of the connotative development of higher education.

KIEDY PRAWO NIE SPEŁNIA FUNKCJI KOMUNIKACYJNEJ – KRYTYKA MONOLOGICZNYCH RELACJI SPOŁECZNYCH W ŚWIETLE DIALOGICZNEJ KONCEPCJI PRAWA

The article deals with the problem of monological social relations as related to the conception of law that does not meet the communication criterion. The analysis is based on the dialogical concept of law and, correspondingly, on Arendt’s notion of the Athenian polis, Gadamer’s hermeneutics, Habermas’s theory of communicative action, Honneth’s theory of recognition, Foucault’s critique of monological society, and Fuller’s morality of law. The most important thesis is that the ethical condition of law fulfilling the communicative function is the recognition of the dialogical subjectivity of a human being and its participation in the constitution of law.

Fenomenología lingüística y filosofía práctica para la paz en la trayectoria intelectual de Vicent Martínez Guzmán

En este artículo expongo las tres etapas del pensamiento de Vicent Martínez Guzmán: 1) la fenomenología lingüística, primero en estrecha conexión con Fernando Montero y John L. Austin, y luego transformada por la pragmática trascendental (Apel) y la teoría de la acción comunicativa (Habermas); 2) la teoría filosófica de Europa, basada en Kant, Husserl, Ortega y Gasset y la Ética comunicativa o discursiva; y 3) la filosofía de la paz, que se convierte en una filosofía para hacer las paces, superando la violencia, la guerra y las injusticia: una investigación interdisciplinar basada en la intersubjetividad con sentido ético y político.In this paper I set forth the three stages of Vicent Martínez Guzmán’s thought: 1) the Linguistic Phenomenology, first closely connected with Fernando Montero and John L. Austin, but later transformed by the Transcendental Pragmatics (Apel) and the Theory of Communicative Action (Habermas); 2) the philosophical theory of Europe, based on Kant, Husserl, Ortega y Gasset and the communicative or discursive ethics; and 3) Philosophy of Peace that becomes in philosophy for making peace(s), overcoming violence, war and injustice: an interdisciplinary research based on intersubjectivity with ethical and political sense.

THE CONCEPT OF POST-METAPHYSICAL THINKING OF JüRGEN HABERMAS

The concept of «post-metaphysical» philosophy of J. Habermas is part of his vast philosophical and sociological creativity. The core of this creativity is formed by the «theory of communicative action».