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Deconstructing Habermas
Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought Series
Author: Thomassen Lasse
Language: EnglishSubjects for Deconstructing Habermas:
Keywords
rational; reconstruction; constitutional; democracy; habermass; texts; consensus; deconstructive; reading; deliberative; Habermas’s Texts; De Man’s Wartime Journalism; Good Life; Vice Versa; Contemporary Societies; Rational Consensus; Constitutional Democracy; Rational Self-legislation; Common Language; Civil Disobedience; Mature Political Culture; Normative Rightness; Performative Contradiction; Paul De Man; Deconstructive Reading; Habermas's Reading; Constitutive Gap; Habermas’s Discourse Ethics; Rational Reconstruction; Unconditional Tolerance; Essential Possibility; Unconditional Inclusion; Language Games; Co-originality Thesis; Justify Civil Disobedience
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This book is the first book-length deconstructive study of the political philosophy of Jürgen Habermas. Inspired by the work of Jacques Derrida, the book applies deconstruction to key issues in Habermas?s work: rational discourse and rational consensus, constitutional democracy, tolerance and civil disobedience.
The war in Iraq brought Habermas and Derrida together in defense of international law and in favor of a bigger role for a united Europe in international affairs. Yet, despite the rapprochement between Habermas and Derrida in the years prior to Derrida?s death, important differences remain between Habermas?s critical theory and Derrida?s deconstruction. These differences reflect differences between post-structuralism and critical theory and between postmodernists and the defenders of modernity.
Introduction: Deconstructing Habermas 1. The Aporias of Rational Consensus 2. ‘A Bizarre, even Opaque Practice’: Constitutionalism and Democracy 3. The Inclusion of the Other?: Tolerance 4. Civil Disobedience within the Limits of Deliberative Reason Alone 5. Towards an Ethics of Discussion
Lasse Thomassen is Lecturer in Political Theory in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the editor of Habermas: A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum, 2010) and, with Lars Tønder, co-editor of Radical democracy: Politics between abundance and lack (Manchester University Press, 2005).