Normativity, Autonomy and Pluralism. Wittgenstein and the Pragmatic Turn in German Philosophy

Habermas and Apel share with the
wittgensteinian linguistic turn the main issue which is at
stake in the latter. That is: they rely on the linguisticalpragmatic
substitution of the traditional Cartesian (and
Kantian) subject of representation, thought as the nonempirical
and non-objective pre-condition of the possibility
of the objective world, with the function of linguistic and
communicative interaction as a means of subjective and
intersubjective world-disclosure (H. Sluga 1996;
Wittgenstein, Tlp, § 5.54- 5.55). The issue basically
concerns the way we think about language as a system
and a means of representation. What is here at stake is
actually the source of its normativity, and the way in which
this normativity can be rationally founded.