scholarly journals COMMUNICATIVE ACTION, DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY, AND CRITICAL FORUMS FOR THE SCHOLARLY PURSUIT OF GLOBAL SOCIAL CHANGE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Mourad
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Deliberative Democracy ◽  
Communicative Action ◽  
Scholarly Pursuit

scholarly journals The Vulnerable Dynamics of Discourse

2021 ◽  
Vol 89 ◽  
pp. 195-225
Author(s):  
Paul Giladi ◽  
Danielle Petherbridge
Keyword(s):  
Deliberative Democracy ◽  
Communicative Action ◽  
Discourse Ethics ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Character ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The Social ◽  
Distorted Communication ◽  
Testimonial Injustice ◽  
Vulnerability Theory

AbstractIn this paper, we offer some compelling reasons to think that issues relating to vulnerability play a significant – albeit thus far underacknowledged – role in Jürgen Habermas’s notions of communicative action and discourse. We shall argue that the basic notions of discourse and communicative action presuppose a robust conception of vulnerability and that recognising vulnerability is essential for (i) making sense of the social character of knowledge, on the epistemic side of things, and for (ii) making sense of the possibility of deliberative democracy, on the political side of things. Our paper is divided into four principal sections. In Section 1, we provide a basic outline of Habermas on communicative action and discourse. In Section 2, we develop an account of vulnerability and communication in the context of speaker/hearer relations. We specifically focus on distorted communication, vulnerability and speech. In Section 3, we focus on elaborating epistemic pathologies in the context of epistemic oppression and testimonial injustice. In Section 4, we focus on explaining how Habermasian resources contribute to vulnerability theory, and how introducing vulnerability theory to Habermas broadens or deepens his theory of communication action and his discourse ethics theory.

scholarly journals Keeping the personality in the information societies

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (S4) ◽  
pp. 1252-1269
Author(s):  
Andrey Linde
Keyword(s):  
Deliberative Democracy ◽  
Communicative Action ◽  
Functional Approach ◽  
Life World ◽  
Human Personality ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Theory Of Communicative Action ◽  
Social Traits ◽  
Modern Information ◽  
Definition Of

The purpose of the paper is to define how the sociopolitical thought of J. Habermas – his theory of communicative action and the concept of deliberative democracy – guarantees the protection and keeping of an independent human personality in modern information societies. In order to solve this problem, the author seeks to determine what is meant by a “personality”. Analyzing this issue, the author distinguishes two different understandings of a personality among J. Habermas’s works: philosophical-personalistic and public-sociological. When integrating these understandings, the author gives an original socio-philosophical definition of a personality, in which the personality retains both individualistic and social traits. It is especially emphasized that for the affirmation of the personality and his/her development, an equal, subject-subject dialogue with Others is necessary. The paper reveals that the development of personality, first of all, is interrelated with the maintenance of a cultural, normative and valuable “life-world”, which is violated by the mechanisms of systematic technocratic regulation in modern times, in a society. The principles of this regulation are justified in a system-functional approach. The advantages of J. Habermas’s approach, capable of ensuring the development of a genuine normative essence of personality, are determined

scholarly journals Habermas e a esfera pública: anotações sobre a trajetória de um conceito

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Estevão Bosco
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Deliberative Democracy ◽  
Structural Transformation ◽  
Communicative Action ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Public ◽  
Legitimation Crisis ◽  
Internal Coherence ◽  
The Public Sphere

Neste artigo, elaboro uma reconstrução da trajetória do conceito de esfera pública na obra de Habermas. Cinco livros serão aqui privilegiados, as vinculações internas entre eles e com o conceito de esfera pública. São eles: Mudança estrutural da esfera pública (1978a [orig. 1962]); Problemas de legitimação no capitalismo tardio (1978b [orig. 1973]); Teoria do agir comunicativo (1987 [orig. 1981]); Facticidade e validade (2003, 2010 [orig. 1992]); e A inclusão do outro (2007 [orig. 1996]). O conceito de esfera pública é tido como elo entre cada um desses livros e argumento haver uma coerência interna entre a tese histórico-sociológica da mudança estrutural da esfera pública, o diagnóstico da crise de legitimação elaborado no início dos anos 1970, a tese da colonização sistêmica do mundo da vida, a tensão entre facticidade e validade no direito democrático e os desafios colocados para a democracia pela globalização. Tal coerência se caracteriza por uma mudança de orientação no diagnóstico da associação histórica entre capitalismo e democracia: em 1962 e 1973, Habermas enfatiza os problemas de integração social e de legitimação decorrentes da evolução do capitalismo, enquanto a partir dos anos 1980, volta-se para a superação dos limites que tal evolução impõe para a realização da democracia.Palavras-Chave: Habermas, Jürgen; esfera pública; ação comunicativa; democracia deliberativa.In this article, I reconstruct the course of Jürgen Habermas’ concept of public sphere. My reconstruction focuses roughly, though not exclusively, on five books and outlines internal connections among them and with the concept of public sphere. These books are the following: “The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere” (1962); “Legitimation Crisis” (1973); “Theory of Communicative Action” (1981); “Facts and Norms” (1992); and “The Inclusion of the Other” (1996). The public sphere concept is taken as a linkage between each of these books. My primary argument is that there is an internal coherence between the sociological-historical thesis of the structural transformation of the public sphere, the early 1970s diagnostic of the legitimation crisis, the colonization of the lifeworld thesis, the tension between facts and norms in democratic society, and the challenges posed to democracy by globalization. Such coherence is characterized by a change of orientation in the addressing of the historical connection between capitalism and democracy: in 1962 and 1973 Habermas emphasizes the problems of social integration and of legitimation stemming from the evolution of capitalism, while from the 1980s onwards, he turns his attention to ways of overcoming the limits which such evolution poses to the realization of democracy.Keywords: Habermas, Jürgen; Public Sphere; Communicative Action; Deliberative Democracy.

scholarly journals JURGEN HABERMAS AND HIS CONTRIBUTION TO THE THEORY OF DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY

2021 ◽  
pp. 36-47
Keyword(s):  
Deliberative Democracy ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Legal Theory ◽  
Communicative Action ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
Jurgen Habermas ◽  
Social Basis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Epistemological Views ◽  
Political Decision Making

The paper presents Jürgen Habermas' epistemological views on the theory of deliberative democracy. Habermas has been constructing a series of assumptions since the 1970ies about his Theory of Communicative Action to overcome the crisis of legitimacy. This position stems from the critique of the deep chasm that exists between the "constitutional-democratic legal order" as a normative framework and how forms of social power are imposed to undermine the legitimate process of passing laws. The course of Habermas's argumentation theorizing about communicative action and the communicatively based process of (democratic) political decision-making brings with it the potential to break with the procedural argumentation of the representatives of the so-called aggregate models of democratic practice. For the development of the theory of deliberative democracy, its sociological sharpness may be important, with the help of which the social basis of legal projects and public policies leads to the clarification of the external tension that exists between facticity and validity. Thus, Habermas respects the differences between facts and norms in every contemporary concept of law. This can be called the legal theory of deliberative democracy that has shaped the modern understanding of the conception and practice of deliberative democracy.

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