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How to theorize communication in social sciences? This text has two goals. First, to rely on the work of Louis Quéré, revealing the strengths and weaknesses of the two dominant models of two dominant models: an epistemological model enrolling the theory of information and cybernetics in an instrumental aim; a political model that aims at inter-understanding at the service of self-determination of the citizens in the elaboration of norms that govern them. Moreover, we wish to add to this review, two models which go beyond the limits of the first two approaches: a praxeological model that relies on praxis as an organizing activity of shared perspectives; a model of incommunication that reverses the situation and makes the impossibility of achieving intercomprehension the norm.

The analyses of Horkheimer and Adorno suggest conceptual tools that permit the critique of neoliberalism and the manner in which the neoliberal government makes use of morality, notably moral responsibility. In particular, Adorno walks a difficult road, analyzing the moral responsibility that denies the social conditions and the responsibility that, taking into account existing conditions, risks becoming an apology or a cynical validation, to clarify a connection between morality and social theory. This leads to an morality that is concerned with being responsible for the social world and a society that makes morality possible. Honneth's social theory, founded on moral expectations, encounters the same obstacles as that of Adorno. Beginning with the example of responsibility, Honneth's approach consists in the understanding of morality taken from neoliberal processes of legitimation, permitting the elaboration of a social critique. Adapted from the source document.