RELATIONAL SUBJECTIVITY IN TERMS OF JÜRGEN HABERMAS’S PHILOSOPHY OF COMMUNICATION AND CHARLES TAYLOR’S PHILOSOPHY OF NARRATIVE
RELATIONAL SUBJECTIVITY IN TERMS OF JÜRGEN HABERMAS’S PHILOSOPHY OF COMMUNICATION AND CHARLES TAYLOR’S PHILOSOPHY OF NARRATIVE

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to confront two contemporary views on subjectivity, i.e. Jürgen Habermas’s communicative subject and Charles Taylor’s narrative subject. The idea of subjectivity and a related concept of rationality substantially undermined by poststructuralist criticism are hereafter presented as relational values created in the process of communication. Habermas thinks that relational subjectivity is a result of communicative rationality. In Taylor’s view, the narrative character of human self-knowledge is meaningful only within a network of conversations.

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