Reason and Authority in Habermas: A Critique of the Critics

1980 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 1007-1017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen K. White
Keyword(s):  
Practical Rationality ◽  
Political Orientation ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
Philosophical Foundations ◽  
Communicative Ethics ◽  
Jurgen Habermas

Some critics of Jürgen Habermas have charged that his ideas have an affinity with authoritarianism. This criticism rests on a fundamental misinterpretation of Habermas' project for a communicative ethics. Political authoritarianism is deeply incompatible with his conceptions of practical rationality and normative legitimacy. After demonstrating this incompatibility, I propose an explanation for the persistence of misunderstanding on this question. In conclusion, some suggestions are offered as to the sort of political orientation one can justifiably derive from Habermas' philosophical foundations.

scholarly journals A configuração da questão dos interesses no âmbito de uma ética do profissional de comunicação

2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 816
Author(s):  
Angela Cristina Salgueiro Marques ◽  
Luis Mauro Sá Martino
Keyword(s):  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
Discourse Ethics ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
Communicative Ethics ◽  
Jurgen Habermas ◽  
Ethical Discussion

Este artigo delineia as possibilidades e condições de uma ética do jornalista a partir da análise do conceito de campo de Pierre Bourdieu e da ética do discurso de Jürgen Habermas. Embora os dois pensadores pareçam ter pouco em comum, ambos têm na noção de interesse um ponto chave de uma discussão sobre ética. Neste texto, o objetivo é discutir essas duas possibilidades de configuração de uma ética comunicativa de modo a analisar o que parece ser um paradoxo cotidiano entre as responsabilidades do profissional e o papel desempenhado pelo interesse nas práticas jornalísticas e na ética comunicativa. Palavras-chave: Ética; Jornalismo; Comunicação. The role played by interests in the configuration of an ethics of the journalistic agent This paper outlines the possibility and conditions of the journalist’s ethics from the point of view of Bourdieu’s professional analysis and Habermas’ discourse ethics, focusing on the notion of ‘interest’. Although the two thinkers have little in common, both seems to focus on the notion of interest to lead an ethical discussion. In this paper, the goal is to discuss these theoretical notions in order to examine what seems to be an everyday paradox between the journalist’s responsibilities and the role played by interest in the journalistic practices and in a communicative ethics. Keywords: Ethics; Journalism; Communication.

Jürgen Habermas on the Way to a Postmetaphysical Reading of Kierkegaard

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 137
Author(s):  
Klaus Viertbauer
Keyword(s):  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
Jurgen Habermas ◽  
Cooperative Venture ◽  
The Way

Habermas’s postmetaphysical reading of Kierkegaard is paradigmatic for his understanding of religion. It shows, why Habermas reduces religion to fideism. Therefore the paper reconstructs Habermas’s reception of Kierkegaard and compares it with the accounts of Dieter Henrich and Michael Theunissen. Furthermore it demonstrates how Habermas makes use of Kierkegaard’s dialectics of existence to formulate his postmetaphysical thesis of a cooperative venture.

A EDUCAÇÃO EM GEORGE HERBERT MEAD, JÜRGEN HABERMAS E A TEORIA HERMENÊUTICO-CRÍTICA: tendências, desafios e perspectivas para uma prática pedagógica emancipatória

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shirlene Santos Mafra Medeiros ◽  
Rita Maria Radl-Phillipp ◽  
José Gilliard Santos da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Rio Grande ◽  
George Herbert ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
George Herbert Mead ◽  
Max Horkheimer ◽  
Jurgen Habermas ◽  
Theodor Adorno

O artigo em questão apresenta a construção coletiva de uma proposta pedagógica para a Escola Estadual Joaquim José de Medeiros, localizada na cidade de Cruzeta, no Estado do Rio Grande do Norte, e possui como base epistemológica a teoria social de George Herbert Mead, Jürgen Habermas e a teoria crítica da educação da Escola de Frankfurt, nas perspectivas de Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno (2003), Jürgen Habermas (2012); e, atualmente, de pesquisadores contemporâneos como Freire (2009), Radl-Philipp (1996, 1998, 2014), Bannell (2006), Pucci (2006), Santos (2007), Medeiros (2010-1016), Casagrande (2014) dentre outros autores que estudam Mead e as teorias críticas numa perspectiva emancipatória.

DESOBEDIÊNCIA CIVIL E DEMOCRACIACIVIL DISOBEDIENCE AND DEMOCRACY

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sílvia Alves (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
Keyword(s):  
John Rawls ◽  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Civil Disobedience ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
Jurgen Habermas

Este artigo tem como objetivo analisar a relação entre a desobediência civil e a democracia no pensamento político contemporâneo, através das obras de Hannah Arendt, Norberto Bobbio, John Rawls e Jürgen Habermas. A indissociabilidade entre democracia e desobediência civil emerge num ambiente favorável mas antinómico e pleno de tensão.

The Public

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Holt
Keyword(s):  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Jurgen Habermas ◽  
Public Nature ◽  
Private And Public

The chapter continues to discuss the association of judgment and sovereignty using Franz Kafka’s story Das Urteil (The Judgment). It does so in order to then introduce the public nature of spectating and how this has been played out in the thinking of Jurgen Habermas concerning speech situations, and in Hannah Arendt’s writings on the polis. Rather than pitch the public in contrast to the private, the chapter suggests spectating plays on the binary in ways that enrich both. This coming together of the private and public is then woven into the understanding of strategic inquiry as an organizational forming of self-presentation.

scholarly journals Taking Back Control over Markets: Jürgen Habermas on the Colonization of Politics by Economics

2021 ◽  
pp. 003232172110186
Author(s):  
Peter J Verovšek
Keyword(s):  
Great Recession ◽  
International Market ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Human Control ◽  
Jurgen Habermas ◽  
Recent Developments

Recent developments have highlighted the tension between democracy and late capitalist economics. In the wake of the Great Recession, international market forces have increasingly taken de facto control of politics. My basic thesis is that a modified version of Jürgen Habermas’ colonization thesis, which opposes the takeover of social and political life by the forces of power (administration) and money (economics), productively conceptualizes these developments. I argue that this framework can help to both diagnose and combat the dangers associated with the overexpansion of functional systemic forces, as well as the broader instrumentalization that they promote. By drawing on his political writings on the future of the European Union after the crisis of the Eurozone, I oppose interpretations of Habermas as a pacified liberal by demonstrating that he shares Karl Marx’s commitment to combatting naturalized views of economics and material reproduction as a force that lie outside of human control.

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