Time of transitions Habermas, Jürgen
2006/01/01, 2006, 2014-11-06, 2016-04-27, 20060101
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We live in a time of turbulent change when many of the frameworks that have characterized our societies over the last few centuries - such as the international order of sovereign nation-states - are ...being called into question. In this new volume of essays and interviews, Habermas focuses his attention on these processes of change and provides some of the resources needed to understand them. What kind of international order should we seek to create in our contemporary global age? How should we understand the political project of Europe and how can the democratic deficit of the EU be overcome? How should we understand the relation between democracy as popular sovereignty, which has become the defining principle of political legitimacy in the modern world, and the idea of basic human rights embodied in the rule of law? Habermas brings his formidable powers of analysis and his distinctive theoretical perspective to bear on these and other key questions of the modern age. His analysis is shaped throughout by his commitment to informed public debate and his powerful advocacy of a postnational renewal of the project of constitutional democracy. Time of Transitions will be essential reading for all students and scholars of sociology and politics, and it will be of interest to anyone concerned with the key social and political questions of our time.
Jürgen Habermas es, sin lugar a duda, uno de los intelectuales europeos que goza hoy de mayor prestigio. Sin embargo, la declinación práctica de su teoría se encuentra, en verdad, realizada a través ...de sus intervenciones en la esfera pública. De ahí que, a pesar de su carácter indudablemente controvertido para una filosofía con pretensiones normativas, la reflexión sobre las migraciones responda más -según señala el editor- a "una reacción ante acontecimientos sobrevenidos" (Velasco, 2022, 16), que a un intento de articular un pensamiento sistemático en torno a esta materia. En este contexto, la iniciativa de reforma constitucional de la Ley Fundamental de 1949 impulsada por el gobierno de Helmut Kohl para restringir el ejercicio del derecho de asilo suscita un acalorado debate sobre la condición de Alemania como "país de inmigración".
In Between Facts and Norms, Jurgen Habermas works out the legal and political implications of his Theory of Communicative Action (1981), bringing to fruition the project announced with his ...publication of The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere in 1962. This new work is a major contribution to recent debates on the rule of law and the possibilities of democracy in postindustrial societies, but it is much more. The introduction by William Rehg succinctly captures the special nature of the work, noting that it offers a sweeping, sociologically informed conceptualization of law and basic rights, a normative account of the rule of law and the constitutional state, an attempt to bridge normative and empirical approaches to democracy, and an account of the social context required for democracy. Finally, the work frames and caps these arguments with a bold proposal for a new paradigm of law that goes beyond the dichotomies that have afflicted modern political theory from its inception and that still underlie current controversies between so-called liberals and civic republicans. The book includes a postscript written in 1994, which restates the argument in light of its initial reception, and two appendixes, which cover key developments that preceded the book. Habermas himself was actively involved in the translation, adapting the text as necessary to make it more accessible to English-speaking readers.
Religion in the Public Sphere Habermas, Jürgen
European journal of philosophy,
April 2006, Letnik:
14, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Odprti dostop
In the light of the new political importance gained by religious traditions in recent years, addresses the debate that has arisen in the wake of John Rawls's political theory, especially his concept ...of the "public use of reason" and how this links with the ethics of citizenship. Discusses the questions of the constitutional separation of church and state, and the influence of this on the role of religion in civil society and politics; and the relationships between liberalism, secularism and religion.
This is Habermas's long awaited work on law, democracy and the modern constitutional state in which he develops his own account of the nature of law and democracy.
The crisis of the European Union showcases the asymmetry between transnational capacities for political action and social as well as economic forces unleashed at the transnational level. But ...recovering the regulatory power of politics by way of increased supranational organization frequently arouses fears about the fate of national democracy and of the democratic sovereign threatened to be dispossessed by executive powers operating independently at the global level. Against such political defeatism this contribution takes the example of the European Union to refute the underlying claim that a transnationalization of popular sovereignty cannot be achieved without lowering the level of democratic legitimation. It focuses on three components of every democratic polity -- the association of free and equal legal persons, a bureaucratic organization for collective action, and civic solidarity as a medium of political integration -- to argue that the new configuration they take at the European level, when compared with the context of the nation-state, does not in principle diminish the democratic legitimacy of the new transnational polity. The contribution continues to argue, however, that the sharing of sovereignty between the peoples and citizens of Europe needs to be better reflected in symmetry between Council and Parliament while political leadership and the media must contribute to a greater sense of civil solidarity. PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
Argues that further development of the European Union requires both a mobilising political project - positively differentiating the Old World from the New - and a formal Constitution, submitted to a ...popular referendum. (Original abstract)
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