No Contest? Assessing the Agonistic Critiques of Jürgen Habermas’s theory of the Public Sphere  

Oleh:

Brady, John S.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Philosophy & Social Criticism vol. 30 no. 3 (Mei 2004), page 331–354.
Topik: agonistic democracy ; deliberative democracy ; democratic theory ; Habermas ; theory of the public sphere
Fulltext: 331PSC303.pdf (149.37KB)

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Would democratic theory in its empirical and normative guises be in a better position without the theory of the deliberative public sphere? In this paper I explore recent theories of agonistic democracy that have answered this question in the affirmative. I question their assertion that the theory of the public sphere should be abandoned in favor of a model of democratic politics based on political contestation. Furthermore, I explore one of the fundamental assumptions at work in the debate about the theory of the public sphere’s status, namely the assumed opposition between consensus and contestation. Questioning the rigid nature of the opposition, I go on to argue that the deliberative theory of the public sphere actually facilitates the development of the agonistic approach to democratic theory and practice.

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