The talking cure in Habermas's republic

New Left Review

Volumn , Issue 12, 2001, Pages 135-151

  Cook, Deborah ^a  

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References (35)

1. Jürgen Habermas, Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy, trans. William Rehg, Cambridge, MA 1996; Faktizität und Geltung. Beiträge zur Diskurstheorie des Rechts und des demokratischen Rechtsstaats, Frankfurt am Main 1992; hencefort, BFN.
2. Jürgen Habermas, Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy, trans. William Rehg, Cambridge, MA 1996; Faktizität und Geltung. Beiträge zur Diskurstheorie des Rechts und des demokratischen Rechtsstaats, Frankfurt am Main 1992; hencefort, BFN.
3. See William Rehg, Translator's Introduction to BFN, p. ix; Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society, Cambridge, MA 1989; Legitimation Crisis, Boston 1975; Theory of Communicative Action, vol. 1: Reason and the Rationalization of Society, vol. 2: Lifeworld and System: A Critique of Functionalist Reason, Boston 1984, 1987; henceforth, TCA.
4. See William Rehg, Translator's Introduction to BFN, p. ix; Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society, Cambridge, MA 1989; Legitimation Crisis, Boston 1975; Theory of Communicative Action, vol. 1: Reason and the Rationalization of Society, vol. 2: Lifeworld and System: A Critique of Functionalist Reason, Boston 1984, 1987; henceforth, TCA.
5. See William Rehg, Translator's Introduction to BFN, p. ix; Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society, Cambridge, MA 1989; Legitimation Crisis, Boston 1975; Theory of Communicative Action, vol. 1: Reason and the Rationalization of Society, vol. 2: Lifeworld and System: A Critique of Functionalist Reason, Boston 1984, 1987; henceforth, TCA.
6. BFN, p. 148.
7. BFN, p. 385.
8. BFN, pp. 356-7.
9. BFN, pp. 373, 381, 357.
10. BFN, pp. 357, 326. For an extended discussion of the ways in which Habermas's concessions to social complexity undermine his commitment to radical democracy, see James Bohman, 'Critical Theory and Democracy', The Handbook of Critical Theory, ed. David M. Rasmussen, Oxford 1996, pp. 205-10.
11. BFN, pp. 357, 326. For an extended discussion of the ways in which Habermas's concessions to social complexity undermine his commitment to radical democracy, see James Bohman, 'Critical Theory and Democracy', The Handbook of Critical Theory, ed. David M. Rasmussen, Oxford 1996, pp. 205-10.
12. 'Between Radicalism and Resignation: Democratic Theory in Habermas', in Peter Dews, ed., Habermas: A Critical Reader, Oxford 1999, p. 166.
13. BFN, p. 287.
14. Peter Dews, 'Facticity, Validity and the Public Sphere', in The Limits of Disenchantment: Essays on Contemporary European Philosophy, London 1995, p. 199.
15. BFN, pp. 8, 19, 287, 386.
16. BFN, p. 385.
17. Recently Habermas appears to have shifted his position, since in The Postnational Constellation we learn that although liberal democracies may respond in a 'procedurally correct' fashion to majority demands when they revoke the welfare state compromise, in doing so they 'end up eroding the legitimacy of democratic procedures and institutions'. The result is incoherence: Habermas makes no attempt to show why revocation of the welfare state should compromise basic democratic principles. See 'Learning from Catastrophe?', in The Postnational Constellation, Cambridge 2001, pp. 50-51.
18. BFN, p. 358.
19. BFN, pp. 358-9.
20. TCA vol. 2, p. 356.
21. Legitimation Crisis, pp. 37, 79.
22. TCA vol. 2, pp. 355-6.
23. TCA vol. 2, p. 386. There is some circularity in Habermas's argument here. The effects of colonization - the unsettling of collective identities and alienation - seem merely to mirror or reflect the condition that originally gave rise to it, namely, civil privatism. The precise distinction between the cause (or conditions) of colonization and its effects remains unclear.
24. BFN, p. xlii.
25. Jürgen Habermas, 'Überlegungen zur Kommunikationspathologie', in Vorstudien und Ergänzungen zur Theorie des Kommunikativen Handelns, Frankfurt am Main 1984, p. 242. Quoted in Maeve Cooke, Language and Reason: A Study of Habermas' Pragmatics, Cambridge, MA 1994, p. 148.
26. Jürgen Habermas, 'Überlegungen zur Kommunikationspathologie', in Vorstudien und Ergänzungen zur Theorie des Kommunikativen Handelns, Frankfurt am Main 1984, p. 242. Quoted in Maeve Cooke, Language and Reason: A Study of Habermas' Pragmatics, Cambridge, MA 1994, p. 148.
27. BFN, p. 408.
28. BFN, p. 78.
29. BFN, pp. 380-1.
30. TCA, p. 387.
31. 'Between Radicalism and Resignation', pp. 166-7.
32. BFN, pp. 372, 359.
33. BFN, pp. 382-3, 149, 357.
34. BFN, p. 485.
35. BFN, p. 148.