Author: Ukoro Theophilus Igwe
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 9783825879082
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
This book critically investigates Jurgen Habermas's attempt to develop communicative conception of human rationality. It explores Habermas's fundamental commitment to the practical import and ramifications of communicative rationality in the field of African political philosophy. Within this context, Habermas's ambitious project to reconcile law, justice, and democracy is wide-ranging. This work explores how it is, among other things, that deliberative institutions can become more democratic through, as Dewey put it, "improvements in the methods and conditions of debate, discussion and persuasion".
Communicative Rationality and Deliberative Democracy of Jürgen Habermas
Author: Ukoro Theophilus Igwe
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 9783825879082
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
This book critically investigates Jurgen Habermas's attempt to develop communicative conception of human rationality. It explores Habermas's fundamental commitment to the practical import and ramifications of communicative rationality in the field of African political philosophy. Within this context, Habermas's ambitious project to reconcile law, justice, and democracy is wide-ranging. This work explores how it is, among other things, that deliberative institutions can become more democratic through, as Dewey put it, "improvements in the methods and conditions of debate, discussion and persuasion".
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 9783825879082
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
This book critically investigates Jurgen Habermas's attempt to develop communicative conception of human rationality. It explores Habermas's fundamental commitment to the practical import and ramifications of communicative rationality in the field of African political philosophy. Within this context, Habermas's ambitious project to reconcile law, justice, and democracy is wide-ranging. This work explores how it is, among other things, that deliberative institutions can become more democratic through, as Dewey put it, "improvements in the methods and conditions of debate, discussion and persuasion".
Understanding Habermas
Author: Erik Oddvar Eriksen
Publisher: Continuum
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This overview of Habermas' work explores the way in which his theories have developed and changed, leading to an exposition of his more complex ideas and theories. His theory of communicative action is analysed, as are key themes, and how they inter-relate.
Publisher: Continuum
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This overview of Habermas' work explores the way in which his theories have developed and changed, leading to an exposition of his more complex ideas and theories. His theory of communicative action is analysed, as are key themes, and how they inter-relate.
Reasonable Democracy
Author: Simone Chambers
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501722549
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
In Reasonable Democracy, Simone Chambers describes, explains, and defends a discursive politics inspired by the work of Jürgen Habermas. In addition to comparing Habermas's ideas with other non-Kantian liberal theories in clear and accessible prose, Chambers develops her own views regarding the role of discourse and its importance within liberal democracies.Beginning with a deceptively simple question—"Why is talking better than fighting?"—Chambers explains how the idea of talking provides a rich and compelling view of morality, rationality, and political stability. She considers talking as a way for people to respect each other as moral agents, as a way to reach reasonable and legitimate solutions to disputes, and as a way to reproduce and strengthen shared understandings. In the course of this argument, she defends modern universalist ethics, communicative rationality, and what she calls a "discursive political culture," a concept that locates the political power of discourse and deliberation not so much in institutions of democratic decision-making as in the type of conversations that go on around these institutions. While discourse and deliberation cannot replace voting, bargaining, or compromise, Chambers argues, it is important to maintain a background moral conversation in which to anchor other activities.As an extended case study, Chambers examines the conversation about language rights that has been taking place for more than twenty years in Quebec. A culture of dialogue, she shows, has proved a positive and powerful force in resolving some of the disagreements between the two linguistic communities there.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501722549
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
In Reasonable Democracy, Simone Chambers describes, explains, and defends a discursive politics inspired by the work of Jürgen Habermas. In addition to comparing Habermas's ideas with other non-Kantian liberal theories in clear and accessible prose, Chambers develops her own views regarding the role of discourse and its importance within liberal democracies.Beginning with a deceptively simple question—"Why is talking better than fighting?"—Chambers explains how the idea of talking provides a rich and compelling view of morality, rationality, and political stability. She considers talking as a way for people to respect each other as moral agents, as a way to reach reasonable and legitimate solutions to disputes, and as a way to reproduce and strengthen shared understandings. In the course of this argument, she defends modern universalist ethics, communicative rationality, and what she calls a "discursive political culture," a concept that locates the political power of discourse and deliberation not so much in institutions of democratic decision-making as in the type of conversations that go on around these institutions. While discourse and deliberation cannot replace voting, bargaining, or compromise, Chambers argues, it is important to maintain a background moral conversation in which to anchor other activities.As an extended case study, Chambers examines the conversation about language rights that has been taking place for more than twenty years in Quebec. A culture of dialogue, she shows, has proved a positive and powerful force in resolving some of the disagreements between the two linguistic communities there.
Between Facts and Norms
Author: Jürgen Habermas
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745692435
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
This is Habermas's long awaited work on law, democracy and the modern constitutional state in which he develops his own account of the nature of law and democracy.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745692435
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
This is Habermas's long awaited work on law, democracy and the modern constitutional state in which he develops his own account of the nature of law and democracy.
Habermas and the Media
Author: Hartmut Wessler
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1509530916
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Jürgen Habermas is arguably the most influential social theorist and philosopher of the twentieth century, and his imprint on media and communication studies extends well into the twenty-first. This book lucidly unpacks Habermas’s sophisticated contributions to the study of media, centering on the three core concepts for which his work is best known: the public sphere, communicative action, and deliberative democracy. Habermas and the Media offers an accessible introduction, as well as a critical investigation of how Habermas’s thinking can help us to understand and assess our contemporary communication environment – and where his framework needs revision and extension. Full of original and sometimes surprising insights, this book is essential reading for scholars and students of media, political communication, and democracy, as well as anyone seeking guidance through Habermas’s rich world of thought.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1509530916
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Jürgen Habermas is arguably the most influential social theorist and philosopher of the twentieth century, and his imprint on media and communication studies extends well into the twenty-first. This book lucidly unpacks Habermas’s sophisticated contributions to the study of media, centering on the three core concepts for which his work is best known: the public sphere, communicative action, and deliberative democracy. Habermas and the Media offers an accessible introduction, as well as a critical investigation of how Habermas’s thinking can help us to understand and assess our contemporary communication environment – and where his framework needs revision and extension. Full of original and sometimes surprising insights, this book is essential reading for scholars and students of media, political communication, and democracy, as well as anyone seeking guidance through Habermas’s rich world of thought.
Political Theory and Power
Author: Sarah Joseph
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004669302
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004669302
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
Understanding Habermas
Author: Erik Oddvar Eriksen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780826460653
Category : Deliberative democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This overview of Habermas' work explores the way in which his theories have developed and changed, leading to an exposition of his more complex ideas and theories. His theory of communicative action is analysed, as are key themes, and how they inter-relate.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780826460653
Category : Deliberative democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This overview of Habermas' work explores the way in which his theories have developed and changed, leading to an exposition of his more complex ideas and theories. His theory of communicative action is analysed, as are key themes, and how they inter-relate.
Habermas: A Guide for the Perplexed
Author: Lasse Thomassen
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0826487661
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A clear, accessible and authoritative account of Jurgen Habermas's wide-ranging and ambitious philosophical project. >
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0826487661
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A clear, accessible and authoritative account of Jurgen Habermas's wide-ranging and ambitious philosophical project. >
Jurgen Habermas
Author: Barbara Fultner
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317492021
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
A rare systematic thinker, Habermas has furthered our understanding of modernity, social interaction and linguistic practice, societal institutions, rationality, morality, the law, globalization, and the role of religion in multicultural societies. He has helped shape discussions of truth, objectivity, normativity, and the relationship between the human and the natural sciences. This volume provides an accessible and comprehensive conceptual map of Habermas' theoretical framework and its key concepts, including the theory of communicative action, discourse ethics, his social-political philosophy and their applications to contemporary issues. It will be an invaluable resource for both novice readers of Habermas and those interested in a more refined understanding of particular aspects of his work.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317492021
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
A rare systematic thinker, Habermas has furthered our understanding of modernity, social interaction and linguistic practice, societal institutions, rationality, morality, the law, globalization, and the role of religion in multicultural societies. He has helped shape discussions of truth, objectivity, normativity, and the relationship between the human and the natural sciences. This volume provides an accessible and comprehensive conceptual map of Habermas' theoretical framework and its key concepts, including the theory of communicative action, discourse ethics, his social-political philosophy and their applications to contemporary issues. It will be an invaluable resource for both novice readers of Habermas and those interested in a more refined understanding of particular aspects of his work.
Jürgen Habermas Concept of Democracy and Implication for the Nigeria State
Author: Elijah Ojochonu Okpanachi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783962032777
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book presents Jurgen Habermas thought on deliberative democracy, absence of which breeds misrule, anarchy and lawlessness. Habermas held that humans can have rational communication that will lead to the democratization of societies through consensus, hence, genuine democracy is rooted in the principle of deliberation and communicative rationality, a conclusion that raises concerns for Nigeria democracy, which is not open, equal, free and transparent for public discussion and collective decision making on affairs that deals with the people.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783962032777
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book presents Jurgen Habermas thought on deliberative democracy, absence of which breeds misrule, anarchy and lawlessness. Habermas held that humans can have rational communication that will lead to the democratization of societies through consensus, hence, genuine democracy is rooted in the principle of deliberation and communicative rationality, a conclusion that raises concerns for Nigeria democracy, which is not open, equal, free and transparent for public discussion and collective decision making on affairs that deals with the people.