LEADER 04750nam 2200709 450 001 9910456329103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-99435-9 010 $a9786611994358 010 $a1-4426-7381-8 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442673816 035 $a(CKB)2430000000001867 035 $a(OCoLC)244768669 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10226411 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000293638 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11214841 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000293638 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10273746 035 $a(PQKB)10683209 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00600958 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3258009 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4671419 035 $a(DE-B1597)464390 035 $a(OCoLC)1013949240 035 $a(OCoLC)944178282 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442673816 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4671419 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257129 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL199435 035 $a(OCoLC)958564987 035 $a(EXLCZ)992430000000001867 100 $a20160914h20032003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDemocracy, power and legitimacy $ethe critical theory of Ju?rgen Habermas /$fOmid A. Payrow Shabani 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2003. 210 4$d©2003 215 $a1 online resource (249 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8020-8761-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. The Unfinished Project of Modernity and the Heritage of Critical Theory -- $t2. Communicative Action Theory and Rational Reconstruction of Linguistic Interaction -- $t3. The Communicative Ethics Controversy: Insights and Oversights -- $t4. Discourse Ethics and Legitimation Problems in Advanced Capitalism -- $t5. The Imperilment of the Critical Theory: The Seductive Complacency of the 'Is' -- $t6. Recovering the Critical Impulse of Habermas's Theory of Democracy -- $t7. Constitutional Patriotism as an Answer to the Problems of Diversity and Solidarity -- $tAbbreviations -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aOver his long and fruitful scholarly life, Jürgen 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.The deficiencies of Habermas's theory can be overcome, Payrow Shabani proposes, by appropriating Foucault's analysis of power as a contestational network of relations flowing in all directions. Similarly, he argues, incorporating Derrida's deconstructive strategy allows for a distinction between the presence of law and the attainment of justice, which is always to come, à-venir. In this view, contestation and dissent are seen as critical democratic values. For Payrow Shabani, such a refurbished critical theory recognizes the diversity of public deliberation in modern democracies, where the pursuit of the ideal of justice is an enduring negotiation that is never completed. 606 $aDemocracy 606 $aPower (Social sciences) 606 $aLegitimacy of governments 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aDemocracy. 615 0$aPower (Social sciences) 615 0$aLegitimacy of governments. 676 $a321.8/01 700 $aPayrow Shabani$b Omid A.$01043860 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456329103321 996 $aDemocracy, power and legitimacy$92469128 997 $aUNINA