Publications

Publication details [#8101]

Rommetveit, Ragnar. 1978. On negative rationalism in scholarly studies of verbal communication and dynamic residuals in the construction of human intersubjectivity. In Brenner, Michael, Peter Marsh and Marilyn Brenner, eds. The social contexts of method. Croom Helm. pp. 16–32.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

communication studies | communicative dynamism | human communication | rationalism

Annotation

R. argues that Habermas' 'pure intersubjectivity' is a convenient fiction which allows scholars of human communication to pursue their trade with scientific rigor, formal elegance, and academic success while evading practically urgent and basic existential issues of human intersubjectivity.

Reprints

Rommetveit, Ragnar and Rolv Mikkel Blakar. 1979. In Rommetveit, Ragnar and Rolv Mikkel Blakar, eds. Studies of language, thought and verbal communication. Academic Press. pp. 147–161.