Academic Scientific JournalsCommunicating aggression and the destruction of discursive rationality
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communicating aggression, discursive rationality, idea of consensus, gamedial communication, co-responsibilityAbstract
The main thesis of the article – constructed from the standpoint of transcendental-pragmatic communicating philosophy – is to indicate aggression present in today’s media space as the most significant threat to discursive rationality. Elaborating on this thesis required, on the one hand, understanding how previous theories conceptualized aggression, and on the other hand, explaining the specificity of discursive rationality. On this basis, it was possible to propose a different approach to the problem of aggression, which, in subsequent steps, allowed the recognition that (1) due to communicative aggression present in the specific media space shaped by the latest media, the fundamental tendency toward consensus in communicative processes undergoes destruction precisely because of the specificity of this “megamedial” space. This (2) consequently prevents the maintenance of the discursive nature of human rationality, and thus (3) poses a fundamental threat to the existence of the communication community. In a “positive plan”, these diagnoses ultimately point to the principle of co-responsibility and the normative ethical framework based on it as determinants of social practices safeguarding the idea of consensus.
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