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University of Tehran

Abstract

In these study features of communicative rationality in Iranian public sphere are examined. Deploying Habermes, the paper recognizes communicative rationality the factor of developing public sphere and transition from traditional life-world to, modern one.So, Iranian life-world as an effective factor for transition from tradition to modern has been studied. Reviewing the history of Iranian social evolutions reveals that intellectuall life-world is the first one which has provided the possibility of critical thought on public issues.Deploying communicative vision, the present article is to claim that constituting he cohesive and integrated life-world is required dependent thoughts sothat bridge the Iranian life-world enjoys the features unique for Iranian society. Thus, to transit this period it is required to reconstruct the ground factors regarding its life-world to reach to modernity.Iranian intellectual life worlds is criticizing public issues through existing Iranian believes. In a sense, Iranian intellectual life – world is result from criticizing traditional life-world. Although ideology and being ideologized is a feature of Iranian intellectual life-world, decanonization is the first feature of communicative rationality in this life-world. This study shows the fragmentation and being power-oriented of communicative rationality.

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