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Habermas-Gadamer debate. background of the debate: Positivismusstreit in 1950's: Karl Popper claimed that causal explanation should be applied in social science. Any other way to do social science is quasi-science on this question Habermas and Gadamer are in the same side Habermas is dissatified
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1. Habermas-Gadamer debate In his book Zur logik der Sozialwissenschaften Habermas give some critical comments on Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics Habermas’s short text: Zu Gadamer’s Warheit und Methode in Apel et al. Hermeneutik und ideologiekritik, 1971 debate started