Jurgen Habermas

Desacuerdo sin reconciliacion: democracia, igualdad y la esfera pública (2012)

by Benjamin Arditi

Debate Feminista, Año 23, No. 1, México, 2012, pp. 41-59

Nancy Fraser alega que la esfera pública nunca estuvo a la altura del supuesto de igualdad irrestricta previsto por... more Nancy Fraser alega que la esfera pública nunca estuvo a la altura del supuesto de igualdad irrestricta previsto por Arendt y Habermas. También sostiene que la igualdad socioeconómica es una condición necesaria para que haya una esfera pública genuinamente democrática. Esto es problemático, pero no porque la igualdad sea un objetivo cuestionable sino porque se la asocia con narrativas clásicas de la emancipación y por ende con un ethos de la reconciliación, al menos de manera implícita. La alternativa que propongo consiste en pensar el espacio público a partir de un ethos de la polémica y en usar dos criterios para enmarcar su relación con la igualdad. Uno de ellos es que el espacio público surge a través de polémicas en torno al estatus de lo dado. Estas ponen a prueba la frontera entre lo público y lo privado y muy a menudo la reconfigura. El otro criterio es que la igualdad es siempre una igualdad disputada y por venir. Esto no se debe a que la igualdad sea una mera presencia diferida —una igualdad ideal que aún no ha arribado— sino a que no puede tener un punto final: el problema de la igualdad vuelve a aparecer cada vez que hay un intento por verificarla.

Exploring the Democratic Potential of Online Social Networking: The Scope and Limitations of e-Participation

by Panos Panagiotopoulos

In Communications of the Association for Information Systems 30 (16), 2012

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The availability and promise of social networking technologies with their perceived open philosophy has increasingly... more The availability and promise of social networking technologies with their perceived open philosophy has increasingly inspired citizens around the world to participate in political activity on the Web. Recent examples range from opposing public policies, such as government funding cuts, to organizing revolutionary social movements, such as those in the Middle East and North Africa. Although online spaces create remarkable opportunities for various forms of political action, there are concerns over the power of existing institutions to control and even censor such interaction spaces. The objective of this article is to draw together different insights on the online engagement phenomenon, highlighting both its potential and limitations as a mechanism for fostering democratic debate and influencing policy making. We examine recent examples from Europe, the Middle East and Latin America. Finally, we summarize the implications of our work and outline directions for further research.

Complex Identities: Seyla Benhabib Between Feminism and Discourse Ethics

by Edoardo Toniolatti

Published in 'Philosophy Today' Spring 2009; 53, 1

Michael Polanyi’s theory of knowledge, Habermas and interdisciplinary research

by Nigel Newton

Review and consideration of Michael Polanyi's theory of knowledge. His relevance to contemporary research in the... more Review and consideration of Michael Polanyi's theory of knowledge. His relevance to contemporary research in the social sciences is discussed. The article also re-evaluates the importance of fiduciary commitment.

Uma revisão crítica da leitura habermasiana da Dialéctica do Iluminismo de Adorno e Horkheimer [Habermas’ Reading of Dialectic of Enlightenment: a critical revision]

by João Pedro Cachopo

Published in Saberes, Natal – RN, vol. 1, no. 1 (December 2008), pp. 57-70 [in Portuguese].

Resumo:

O artigo visa levar a cabo uma revisão crítica da leitura habermasiana da Dialéctica do Iluminismo... more Resumo:

O artigo visa levar a cabo uma revisão crítica da leitura habermasiana da Dialéctica do Iluminismo de Adorno e Horkheimer, tendo como pano de fundo a perspectiva de uma reavaliação do potencial da filosofia adorniana, para lá das fronteiras teóricas da chamada segunda geração da Escola de Frankfurt. Atendendo ao teor crítico da leitura proposta por Habermas, tratar-se-á de discutir dois aspectos que lhe estão subjacentes: a identificação da dimensão mítica do iluminismo com a “racionalidade instrumental”, por um lado, e, por outro, o diagnóstico segundo o qual estaria em causa na Dialéctica do iluminismo uma totalização da crítica que conduziria inevitavelmente a filosofia a uma situação aporética que ameaça conduzi-la ao beco sem saída do cepticismo. Face a este duro diagnóstico, sugere-se que a dimensão paradoxal do pensamento de Adorno pode constituir – permanecendo fiel à sua definição enfática da filosofia como “pensamento que não se deixa travar” – uma vertente imprescindível do pensar filosófico capaz de desencadear, com o seu carácter perturbador, uma crítica imanente da razão.

Ativismo ou participação? Por uma agenda de estudos comparativos sobre as formas de inclusão das vozes subalternas

by Francisco Mata Machado Tavares (Franck)

Civic Fragmentation or Voluntary Association? Habermas, Fraser and Charter School Segregation

by Terri Wilson

Educational Theory, Vol. 60: No. 6 (December 2010).

Polyamory awareness-raising: An auto-ethnographic account of a round-table on polyamory and lesbianism

by Daniel Cardoso

Paper presented at the Sexual Cultures Conference, London, 2012

Co-authored with: Inês Rôlo, Salomé Coelho

Stemming from the auto-ethnographic and personal recounting of a round-table organized by a lesbian-focused activist... more Stemming from the auto-ethnographic and personal recounting of a round-table organized by a lesbian-focused activist group in Lisbon, Portugal, the authors reflect on the intersections between doing research, spreading that research, doing activism and working with / listening to sexual minorities as a way of critically involving the LGBT community and their concerns in the scientific process. As we’ll see, conflicting political and identity agendas might create tension between different minorities, and even the reinstatement of (homo-)normativity. We claim that only through debate, exposure and recognition (which mixes research, scientific dissemination and activism) can we think «about an issue in a way that takes account of the perspectives of others» (Young, 2000), but that the modes of performing debate also need to be critically reflected upon, keeping in sight the ethical concern for the intimate citizenship (Plummer, 1994) of those represented (and of those absent).

JURGEN HABERMAS

by Rıza Güler

Kendisini son Marksist olarak nitelemesine karşın, hemen her eserinde Marksizmle diyaloga girmiş, eleştirmiş ve... more Kendisini son Marksist olarak nitelemesine karşın, hemen her eserinde Marksizmle diyaloga girmiş, eleştirmiş ve özellikle Marksizmin ihmal ettiği “üst yapı” analizleri yapmıştır.
Weber’in teorilerini de geliştirmeye çalışmıştır. “İletişimsel Eylem Kuramı” adlı eserinde Weber’i çıkış noktası olarak kullanmıştır.
Bunların yanı sıra; Kant, Durkheim, Mead, Garfinkel, Goffman, Austin ve Parsons gibi çoğu bir biriyle uzlaşmaz düşünürlerin teorilerini de çözümleyerek, kendi kuramını oluşturması onun özgül bir niteliğidir (Eklektizm ve Senkretizm ile suçlanmış ancak zengin referansı ile bir çok ilginin odağı olmuştur).

O discurso jurídico como um caso especial do discurso prático geral. Uma análise da teoria discursiva do Direito de Robert Alexy

by Eduardo Augusto Pohlmann

Revista da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, v. 27, p. 59-99, 2007.

Il n’y a pas de rapport sexuel: The Irresolvability of the Gadamer-Habermas Debate

by William J. Urban

class paper written Good Friday, April 6, 2012

Review of Karl-Otto Apel Zur Einfuhrung. Philosophical Quarterly, 1993. 43 (170):118-119.

by H.G. Callaway

In the book under review, Walter Reese-Schafer provides a concise Introduction to the sources, themes and conclusions... more In the book under review, Walter Reese-Schafer provides a concise Introduction to the sources, themes and conclusions of the philosophy of Karl-Otto Apel, Emeritus Professor at Frankfurt and close colleague of Jurgen Habermas. There are both Kantian and Peircean themes in Apel, with the chief focus on the concept of discourse ethics.

Review of: Jürgen Habermas: Democracy and the public sphere Goode, L. (2005). London: Pluto Press.

by Lincoln Dahlberg

The Habermasian public sphere: A specification of the idealized conditions of democratic communication

by Lincoln Dahlberg

Expertise et compétences. Procédures, contextes et situation de légitimation.

by Guillaume Calafat

Published in 'Hypotheses' 2010

Here is the introduction of a workshop about expertise and competences (skills). It deals with science studies and... more Here is the introduction of a workshop about expertise and competences (skills). It deals with science studies and pragmatic sociology which provide useful concepts to study historically expertise.

Theories of Democracy, Representation, and the Case Against Judicial Review

by Jens Olesen

Paper to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), as part of the panel “Deliberation. What Else?”, organized by Dr Giulia Sissa (UCLA), chaired by Dr John Erik Fossum (ARENA, Oslo); New Orleans, LA, 30 August- 2 September 2012.

Preoccupied With Occupation: A Habermasian Attempt to Resolve A Movement’s Concurrent Commitment to Prefigurative Political Ideal and Effective Protest Center

by Gabi Schaffzin

Written for CMS.860 at MIT's Center for Civic Media, Fall 2011. Professor Sasha Costanza-Chock.

O problema da participação política no modelo deliberativo de democracia / The question of the political participation within the deliberativa model of democracy

by Francisco Paulo Jamil Marques

Reference: MARQUES, F. P. J. A. O problema da participação política no modelo deliberativo de democracia. In: Revista de Sociologia e Política (UFPR. Impresso), v.20, n. 41, pp. 21-35. 2012

Title in English: The question of the political participation within the deliberativa model of democracy. Text in... more Title in English: The question of the political participation within the deliberativa model of democracy. Text in Portuguese. Abstract in English: This paper discusses the premises of the deliberative model of democracy as they address the issue of political participation. We attempt to clarify what political participation means for those who use this model, while at the same time looking at some of the major critiques that have been directed toward it. Through a review of an important part of the literature, and without losing sight of earlier systematizations of democratic theory, three fundamental conditions for engendering participation according to this discursive model are pointed to: political institutions should create and offer citizens opportunities to participate in public input; improvement in people's socio-economic condition must be made; attention should be given to particular principles that have consistent regulatory influence on the interactions and arguments in question. This is followed by attention to the criticisms raised and flaws detected by deliberationism's detractors. At the end of the text, a summary of the strengths and weaknesses of the model is presented, along with a discussion of the problem of participation in contemporary democracies.

Keywords: Participation; Deliberation; Democracy; Representation.

A critique of Habermas

by Drazen Pehar

Section 3, Chapter 8 of the book Diplomatic ambiguity: Language, power, law (LAP Lambert Academic 2011) (a revised version of PhD thesis, pol./int'l relations, SPIRE (Keele University UK, 2006)

LA IDEA DE ILUSTRACIÓN: UNA EXPLORACIÓN Y COMPARACIÓN (THE IDEA OF ILLUSTRATION: AN EXPLORATION AND COMPARISON)

by J. Fernando Galindo

Publicado en la Revista Punto Cero, No. 9: 53-59, 2003.

In this essay I explore and compare the approaches of Max Horkheimer and Teodoro Adorno, Michel Foucault, and Jurgen... more In this essay I explore and compare the approaches of Max Horkheimer and Teodoro Adorno, Michel Foucault, and Jurgen Habermas to the issue of illustration.

Resumen

En este ensayo se exploran y comparan los acercamientos al tema de la ilustración desde las perspectivas de Max Horkheimer y Teodoro Adorno, Michel Foucault, y Jurgen Habermas.