Democracy, Power, and Legitimacy
The Critical Theory of J?rgen Habermas
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60,000 words, Guess
Page Count
240 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7874054M
- ISBN-139780802087614
- ISBN-100802087612
- OCLC Control Number51274555
- Library of Congress Control Number2003280050
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- Goodreads4072808
Classifications
- LCCJC263.H14 P38 2003
Description
"Over his long and scholarly life, Jurgen Habermas has patiently laboured to diagnose the limitations and free the potential of the project of modernity - the pursuit of the ideal of free society by rational subjects. Omid A. Payrow Shabani here analyses the development of Habermas's critical philosophy in its pursuit of a theory of justice that can address the ethico-political concerns of our diverse, pluralist, and fragmented society. He contends that Habermas's more recent work represents a position that is inadequately critical of the existing political order in liberal democracies." "Payrow Shabani situates Habermas's current philosophical orientation by laying out its historical background and theoretical sources in the work of Kant and Hegel, and charting its movement towards an account of communicative rationality. Habermas's discourse ethics in turn translates his theory of communication into a sociological critique of democracy in advanced capitalism. Yet, Payrow Shabani argues, in his impressive effort to theorize deliberative democracy, and the role of law and power therein, Habermas concedes too much to 'real-existing' capitalism, and thus legitimizes political power as currently exercised in Western democracies."--Jacket.
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