Convenciones sociales y sujetos silenciados. Una crítica a la situación ideal de habla en relación con la obra de Virginia Woolf

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyse a different version of the human communicative process, which is presented as a critique to Jürgen Harbermas’s ideal discourse theory. For this purpose, I will be referring to three critical objections to Habermas’s communicative action theory: the first one questions the implicit and universal consideration of the communicative structure; the second one objects to the formal and abstract subject that this author proposes; and the last one criticises the aproblematic conception of Habermas’s social normativity. To conclude, the paper also looks into Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, which problematises Habermas’s ideal speech situation.