Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 11:40:58 +0300 (MEST)
From: bahattin aksit <aksit-AT-rorqual.cc.metu.edu.tr>
Subject: Re: HAB: Horizon concept in TCA



Dear Debbie,

If you take pre-refexive third kind of background knowledge as horizon and
as "not context-bound" and "actors taking it with them to various
contexts" then this will be very similar to Bourdieu's concept of
"Habitus" (Bourdieu, Logic of Practice, Stanford Univ. Press, 1990)
bahattin


On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Debbie Rodan wrote:

> Hi list memebers
> At present I am reading and writing about Habermas's use of the term horizon
> in TCA Vol 2 p.123 (Beacon).  It appears that there are three kinds of
> knowledges which form background knowledge to the lifeworld (Mauve Cooke
> _Language and Reason_).  The first two can be more easily foregrounded,
> whereas the third kind is not known knowledge.  Now I want to say that it is
> this third kind of knowledge of the lifeworld which is what Habermas would
> define as the horizon.  This third kind of knowledge is "intuitively
> familiar" (Habermas), it is implied and pre-reflexive.  In other words, it
> is not at all easily foregrounded.  Then I go on to interpret Habermas as
> saying that a horizon is not context-bound but is the background knowledge
> to various contexts and situations.  In other words, participants take this
> not known knowledge with them as they enter different contexts and situations.
> 
> Any comments, criticisms, directions (have you already discussed this?)
> would be much appreciated.  Thanks in advance
> 
> Debbie
> 
> --------------------------------------
> 
> Debbie Rodan
> Ph.D. English and Comparative Lit.
> d_rodan-AT-central.murdoch.edu.au
> 
> 
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