I first compare the deliberative to the liberal and the republican models of democracy, and consider possible references to empirical research and then examine what empirical evidence there is for ...the assumption that political deliberation develops a truth-tracking potential. The main parts of the paper serve to dispel prima facie doubts about the empirical content and the applicability of the communication model of deliberative politics. It moreover highlights 2 critical conditions: mediated political communication in the public sphere can facilitate deliberative legitimation processes in complex societies only if a self-regulating media system gains independence from its social environments and if anonymous audiences grant a feedback between an informed elite discourse and a responsive civil society. Adapted from the source document.
Karl-Otto Apel ocupa um lugar de destaque entre os filósofos alemães da primeira geração após a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Sua realização pioneira, que é ofuscada pela disputa acirrada sobre o problema ...de uma “fundamentação última” da ética, consiste em abrir uma nova dimensão na análise da linguagem e, com isso, completar a “virada linguística”. Ele realizou a transição da semântica formal, que se concentra na estrutura dos enunciados, para a pragmática “transcendental” da linguagem, centrada nas propriedades formais do uso e da interpretação das expressões linguísticas. Desta forma, ele também lançou as bases para uma ética do discurso. O ensaio traça as etapas dessa “transformação da filosofia transcendental”, que, partindo do Heidegger tardio, conduzem à hermenêutica transcendental inspirada por Peirce. Ao dar continuidade a uma discussão que transcorreu ao longo de toda a vida com meu amigo Karl-Otto, enfrento, no final, alguns problemas que, a meu ver, surgem dessa fundamentação da ética do discurso.
The continued rise of populism and authoritarianism throughout the world has witnessed an alarming attack on basic democratic freedoms and led to a divided political and social world. Few thinkers ...have done as much as Jürgen Habermas to understand and critique these problems, perhaps most famously through his notions of the public sphere, deliberative democracy, and discourse ethics.
In this fascinating book, Emilie Prattico considers the crisis of democracy from a Habermasian standpoint via engaging interviews with an outstanding lineup of leading philosophers and thinkers. The following key topics are unpacked and explored:
Can some basic rights and liberties be given up to safeguard democracy? With Hauke Brunkhorst
How does actual deliberation confer legitimacy to democratic decisions? With Cristina Lafont
Why is "fake news" a crisis of democracy? With Michael Lynch
How can we build a public sphere together and share it in a world characterized by divisiveness and tribalism? With Barbara Fultner
Can democracy survive without the voice of experts? With Kenneth Baynes
How dangerous are the current forms of authoritarianism we are seeing take hold all over the world? With María Pía Lara
What does the public sphere look like with new technologies? With Gertrud Koch
What duties do we owe descendants of slaves and how do we reckon with our antidemocratic and oppressive past? With Lorenzo Simpson
Also including a Foreword by Habermas himself, this book is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the challenges facing democracy and liberalism today. It will be of great interest to those in philosophy, sociology, and politics as well as related fields such as religion and law.
Karl-Otto Apel occupies a pre-eminent place among the German philosophers of the first post-war generation. His groundbreaking achievement, which has been unjustly overshadowed by the tenacious ...debate over the ‘ultimate justification’ of ethics, consisted in disclosing a new dimension in the philosophy of language and thereby completing the ‘linguistic turn’. He made the transition from formal semantics, which concentrates on the structure of propositions, to ‘transcendental’ pragmatics of language, which focuses on the formal aspects of the use and interpretation of linguistic expressions. In pursuing this path, he also laid the foundations for discourse ethics. The essay traces the stages of this ‘transformation of transcendental philosophy’ leading from the late Heidegger to Apel’s conception of ‘transcendental hermeneutics’ inspired by Peirce. Continuing the lifelong discourse with my friend Karl-Otto, I will conclude by addressing some problems raised by his justification of discourse ethics.
The first book to consider the debate between two of the most prominent philosophers and social theorists of the 20th century: Jacques Derrida and Jürgen Habermas.
This article contains reflections on the further structural transformation of the public sphere, building on the author’s widely-discussed social-historical study, The Structural Transformation of ...the Public Sphere, which originally appeared in German in 1962 (English translation 1989). The first three sections contain preliminary theoretical reflections on the relationship between normative and empirical theory, the deliberative understanding of democracy, and the demanding preconditions of the stability of democratic societies under conditions of capitalism. The fourth section turns to the implications of digitalisation for the account of the role of the media in the public sphere developed in the original work, specifically to how it is leading to the expansion and fragmentation of the public sphere and is turning all participants into potential authors. The following section presents empirical data from German studies which shows that the rapid expansion of digital media is leading to a marked diminution of the role of the classical print media. The article concludes with observations on the threats that these developments pose for the traditional role of the public sphere in discursive opinion and will formation in democracies.
L’omaggio di due amici Habermas, Jürgen; Timothy Garton Ash
SocietàMutamentoPolitica (Firenze),
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10, Številka:
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Odprti dostop
Il primo maggio del 2009 è stato celebrato presso il St Anthony’s College di Oxford l’ottantesimo compleanno di Ralf Dahrendorf. Nell’occasione si è tenuto, in sua presenza, un seminario ...internazionale nel quale si è affrontato, nelle diverse prospettive tipiche delle scienze sociali, il topos della libertà, un tema che è stato la stella polare della sua vita di pensatore a cavallo tra mondo accademico ed impegno politico. L’evento è stato coordinato dal professor Timothy Garton Ash che SMP ringrazia caldamente per aver autorizzato la pubblicazione, qui di seguito, di due importanti interventi ora raccolti nel libro da lui stesso curato On Liberty.The Dahrendorf Questions (University of Oxford, 2009).
The European Union is at the crossroads between intelligent expansion of future horizons and frightened shrinking to a perspective of local areas. Fear of descent of the citizens on one side and a ...politics of crisis, that goes along with harsh injustice have made upset the national societies against each other, missing courage on the side of politicians, to bring European issues to the fore, endanger the European project. There is only one way to overcome this situation by establishing a democratic union, which conserves not only the social and civilian achievements of the national state, as well as the assets of a greater democratic political unity, that offers an unity of European citizens and. European state demos. keywords European constitution, crisis, democracy, heterarchy
Response to Ágnes Heller Habermas, Jürgen
Thesis eleven,
12/2017, Letnik:
143, Številka:
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Ever since we met in the mid-60s through Iring Fetscher, I have taken Agnes Heller seriously as a philosopher, which is self-evident given the status of her work and her philosophical accomplishment. ...But what is even more evident is that a form of personal relationship existed between us from the beginning. This relationship cannot be characterized precisely enough in terms of friendship. From my perspective there was, in addition to respect and a friendly bond, always also a degree solidarity. This is the solidarity of one who has been spared from and favored by historical-political fate with a similar-minded contemporary who was forced to invest incomparably more courage and fighting spirit and who, to the present day, has had to take on so many great risks and impositions by putting her neck on the line. Agnes Heller had to, in a literally existential sense, 'live' her philosophy while we in Western Germany were spared from seriously challenging situations.
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