Tag: Habermas
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Habermas and the Modern Public Sphere: Insights for Today
Habermas was, above all, a sociologist, even if much of the press insists on presenting him simply as a philosopher. That is not a minor distinction. His work was not only a contribution to philosophy in the narrow sense; it was also a formidable set of tools for thinking about society, legitimacy, consensus, institutions, and…
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Experimental governance and pre-scientific knowledge
In a previous post it was addressed the concept of experimental governance, understood “as a means to launch an environmental project in spite of uncertainties and uphold the project without disrupting the overall process” (Gross, M., & Heinrichs, 2010:283). This point, the authors continues “is wholly pragmatic to create and facilitate the building of a…
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Experimentalist governance
We note that although American pragmatism has influenced environmental sociology through the writings of Jürgen Habermas and his influence on the “participatory paradigm”-i.e. the idea that public participation is necessary to create legitimate decisions (Parkins and Mitchell 2005)-the generally negative attitude toward ecological reform in North American environmental sociology has somewhat obliterated the many positive…
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Habermas communicative rationality and how discourse ethics and a vibrant public sphere could break the stranglehold on rationality by elites
Te belief that meaning and reason were social in nature-i.e., required mutual cooperation and collaboration in its contruction-led early pragmatists to belive that an important part of the route to progressive social change lie in democratic deliberative approaches to addressing pressing social problems. These ideas are best illustrated by Dewey´s lifelong commitment to extensive citzen…