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This chapter will analyse a few parameters of critical-emancipatory education, communicative action and ideal speech by positioning these against the backdrop of authoritarian forms of communication often found in standard management training programmes.¹ It will also highlight emancipatory communication and, above all, forces set free when ideal speech is applied to emancipatory education.² From the outset, focusing on humanisation and the role of human beings in it will highlight some of the key differences between human beings and animals, between consciousness and semi-consciousness, and between a conscious engagement into management and economic affairs set against the ideology of unconsciously acting in a free market with an "invisible hand" as a crypto-automatic self-regulator.³ At the most basic level of such differences, there is the fact that animals—just as markets—cannot consciously reflect on the world that surrounds them. Instead, it impacts on them. Animals are instinct driven and immersed in the world. They exist in settings which they can never transcend By contrast, people emerge from the world, reflect on it, objectify it, and, in doing so, develop a philosophical and rational understanding, but they also engage in the conscious process of transforming the world through their labour as a rationally planned activity.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-40778-4_7

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