Answers to a marxist critic of the rhetorical and pragmatic perspectives in economics

Danilo Araújo Fernandes (), Paulo Gala and José Marcio Rego ()

Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 2008, vol. 28, issue 1, 155-165

Abstract: Based on recent discussions regarding the rhetorical perspective in economics, this paper presents an interpretation of the philosophical approach of Habermas which attempts to rescue the so called ´modern spirit´, forgotten in the annals of the 19th century, similar to that presented by Marshall Berman in 1982. Following the reconstructive approach of Habermas´s project of modernity, we attempt to show how a ´rhetorical approach´ could be applied in the field of economics, and yet still be clearly modern by taking into account intersubjectivities, given the expanded sphere of human communication (as defended in the theory of communicative action of Habermas). In this sense, we will seek to demonstrate the philosophical limits of the anti-rhetorical critiques of, for example, Paulani (1996, 2003, 2005, 2006), which seem to underestimate the linguistic and intersubjective aspect of Habermas´s philosophical project that can also be found in McCloskey’s methodological approach. JEL Classification: B41.

Keywords: Rhetoric project; modernity; linguistic turn and intersubjectivity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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