Steets S (2021)
Publication Language: German
Publication Type: Book chapter / Article in edited volumes
Publication year: 2021
Publisher: Brill | Schöningh
Edited Volumes: Jahrbuch für Europäische Ethnologie
Series: Jahrbuch für Europäische Ethnologie
City/Town: Leiden
Book Volume: 15
Pages Range: 233–247
ISBN: 978-3-657-70475-0
URI: https://www.schoeningh.de/display/book/edcoll/9783657704750/BP000012.xml
DOI: 10.30965/9783657704750_012
Taking the controversy over the weather and audience size during Donald Trump’s inauguration as US president as a starting point, the article firstly examines how Trump’s rhetorical and communicative practices affect what sociologists call “lifeworld” or “common sense” and why this, secondly, poses a threat to a liberal understanding of democracy. In consideration of this, I present and discuss the respective concepts of common sense formulated by Alfred Schütz, Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann, Harold Garfinkel as well as Jürgen Habermas. According to Habermas, the dangers presented by Trump’s rhetoric to a liberal understanding of democracy become apparent, but it remains open as to why it works so well, nevertheless. To answer this question, I combine aspects of the above-mentioned approaches with more recent social diagnoses of the structural change of modernity.
APA:
Steets, S. (2021). Die Politik fragiler Wissensordnungen. Donald Trump und das Problem der Realität. In Treiber A, Alzheimer H, Doering-Manteuffel S, Drascek D (Hrg.), Jahrbuch für Europäische Ethnologie. (S. 233–247). Leiden: Brill | Schöningh.
MLA:
Steets, Silke. "Die Politik fragiler Wissensordnungen. Donald Trump und das Problem der Realität." Jahrbuch für Europäische Ethnologie. Hrg. Treiber A, Alzheimer H, Doering-Manteuffel S, Drascek D, Leiden: Brill | Schöningh, 2021. 233–247.
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