Habermas (1979) views the individual both as an autonomous speaker and as
one participating among others within two worlds: the inner and outer. The unification
of the inner and outer worlds of the speaker is made possible by the speaker’s
discourse-centered act. Communicatively, the speaker has a first-person relation to
his/her inner world, a third-person relation to the outer world; and most important a
second-person relation to the social world of interaction. This triangulation provides the
grounds for the speaker’s autonomy, for a meaningful communication among others,
and the possibility of reflection in the form of rational reconstruction (Habermas, 1998).
Keywords: Popular cinema, rational reconstruction, emancipation,
intersubjectivity, critique, intended object, intersubjective claims, emancipator,
rationale, conceptual framework, intended object.