Jurgen Habermas Quotes on Politics
Jurgen Habermas is a German philosopher and sociologist, the most influential heir of the Frankfurt School and the foremost theorist of communicative reason. This page collects quotes attributed to Jurgen Habermas on the topic of politics, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Jurgen Habermas:
“Discourse ethics begins with the idea that only those norms can claim validity that meet with the approval of all those affected as participants in a practical discourse.”
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Attributed to Jurgen Habermas:
“The public sphere is a realm of social life in which something approaching public opinion can be formed.”
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Attributed to Jurgen Habermas:
“Modernity is an unfinished project.”
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“Habermas (1998) The Inclusion of the Other: Studies in Political Theory . Ciaran Cronin and Pablo De Greiff, eds. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.”
The 'state' on the modern conception is a legally defined term which refers, at the level of substance, to a state power that possesses both internal and external sovereignty, at the spatial level over a clearly delimited terrain (the state territory) and at the social level over the totality of members (the body of citizens or the people). State power constitutes itself in the forms of positive l