Antes de Habermas, para além de Habermas: uma abordagem pragmatista da democracia deliberativa

This article argues that the main elements that deliberative democrats take from Haber-mas can be found in classical pragmatism. It does so through the discussion of five contributions often credited to German critical theorist: (1) Habermas’ democratic theory is grounded on a broad conception of po...

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Autor: Ricardo Fabrino Mendonça
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
Repositorio:Repositório Institucional da UFMG
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.ufmg.br:1843/40269
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/1843/40269
https://orcid.org/ 0000-0002-7754-3359
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Democracia deliberativa
Pragmatismo
Habermas
Dewey
Habermas, Jurgen, 1929-
Dewey, John, 1859-1952
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Sumario:This article argues that the main elements that deliberative democrats take from Haber-mas can be found in classical pragmatism. It does so through the discussion of five contributions often credited to German critical theorist: (1) Habermas’ democratic theory is grounded on a broad conception of politics that challenges realist approaches; (2) Habermas offers a non-aggregative notion of democratic theory, centered on communicative exchanges; (3) Habermas connects dis-course and reason opening a path for the simultaneous consideration for particular and universal; (4) Habermas advances a discourse ethics that allows theorists to deal with the fact of pluralism; (5) Habermas leads to a systemic approach that acknowledges the importance of de-centered publics. The article, then, claims that pragmatism can offer a radical discursive approach to demo-cratic theory that helps overcome problems inherent to Habermas approach or that are attributed to him by crystallized problematic readings of his work.