Habermas and Brandom, differences explained

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/27517740_On_Normative_Pragmatics_A_Comparison_between_Brandom_and_Habermas



Habermas seems to assum that we need to get back to the life-world, and have a kind of real-world interaction with it. So we do not deny that there is something going on on the base level of our lives, but we exclude that it can be represented meaningfully in discourses. Discourses on the other hand, have to secure that they bring us back to the bottom of this reality.

"Because agents must get to the bottom ‘of’ the world, they can’t help but being realist in
their life-world. And they also must be so, because their linguistic games and
practices prove in their execution, until these work without surprises” [Haber-
mas (1996), p. 735]." (60)