Jurgen Habermas Quotes on Politics
Habermas's two-volume Theory of Communicative Action (1981) and Between Facts and Norms (1992) develop the most ambitious contemporary theory of deliberative democracy. The discourse theory of legitimacy holds that political norms are valid only insofar as they could be agreed to by all those affected, in conditions approximating the ideal speech situation in which the only force is the unforced force of the better argument. The framework reconstructs the public sphere — Habermas's category of analysis since The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (1962) — as the domain in which civil society's communicative reason permeates and constrains the administrative and economic systems that would otherwise colonize the lifeworld.
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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