Resumen

DIAZ MONTIEL, Zulay C.. La racionalidad comunicativa como episteme liberadora y crítica¹ . Utopìa y Praxis Latinoamericana [online]. 2006, vol.11, n.32, pp.55-75. ISSN 1315-5216.

ABSTRACT      In this paper the relationship between the theory of communicative action and the processes of inter-subjective liberation are studied through democratic dialogue and the significance of linguistic practice in capitalist societies. The new pragmatic-hermaneutic paradigm presents the possibility of interpreting social relations from the public space, the place where the genesis of rationalization processes, social representation, and the political life of citizens occurs. The problems and conflicts involved in the technification of semantic and productive relations require discussion through dialogic rationality, in order to overcome the instrumental direction of positivist rationality. This action makes possible the inter-subjectivity of human beings in a dimension of free citizenship to which all have a right in the modern state.

Palabras clave : Communicative action; liberation; episteme; criticism.