“Jűrgen Habermas’ Theory of Discursive Democracy”Michael Becker (Associate Professor of Political Theory, Institute of Political Science and Sociology, University of Wűrzburg, Germany , http://www.politikwissenschaft.uni-wuerzburg.de/lehrbereiche/theorie/mitarbeiter/becker0/)
Seminar Hall, Dept. of Philosophy
Ambedkar Bhavan, University of Pune
Ganeshkhind 411007
India
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*Jürgen Habermas’ Discursive Theory of Democracy in its latest version is the result of both: his strong commitment to the classical conception of people’s sovereignty from the European Enlightenment era on the one side and his broad interest in modern political, philosophical and sociological theories on the other side. Especially this second characteristic contributed enormously to the complexity of his own work and sometimes complicated its proper understanding. The talk will develop at least roughly the socio-philosophical basis of a discursive model of democracy referring among other things to the earlier concept of Knowledge and Human Interests and then focus on two main features of Habermas’ major book from 1992, Between Facts and Norms: that is, firstly, the unfolding and the components of “communicative power” as an important source of the so-called “lifeworld” respectively civil society and, secondly, the transformation of this communicative power into “administrative power”, the medium which circulates within the “political system” (formerly known as the “state”). Finally, the considerable strength but also some problematic aspects of this critical theory of democracy will be appreciated.
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