Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy
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...Political intolerance signals a lack of moral respect – a basic condition for individuals to be recognized as free and equal in a plural democracy (Habermas, 1998; Honneth, 1996)....
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...…years, deliberative democracy theorists have also emphasized rational discussion and debate—in their term, deliberation—as the source of the legitimacy of political decisions (Benhabib, 1996; Bohman, 1996; Cohen, 1997; Fishkin, 1991; Gutmann & Thompson, 1996, 2004; Habermas, 1996/1992, 1998/1996)....
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...54 In response to Bernstein‘s critique, Habermas (1996) has emphasized that he has never denied the importance of democratic ethos: ―a liberal political culture‖ in his terms....
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...…have believed that democracy requires particular types of political talk, which are called ―public use of reason‖ (Kant, 1991/1784), ―deliberation‖ (Bohman, 1996; Fishkin, 1991; Gutmann & Dennis, 1996, 2004; Habermas, 1996/1992, 2006), or a ―problem-solving model of conversation‖ (Schudson, 1997)....
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...Similarly, other approaches revert to identitarian essentialism – a version of the dictum ‘government by the people’ – that reifies the aforementioned identitarian features of citizenship of Westphalian nation-states or its alleged structural preconditions, such as a thin cosmopolitanism enabled by the existence of a public sphere (Schlesinger, 1991; Grimm, 1995; Habermas, 1996; Greven, 2000; Kielmannsegg, 2003; Schlesinger, 2007; for a critique see Van de Steeg, 2006)....
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...…citizenship of Westphalian nation-states or its alleged structural preconditions, such as a thin cosmopolitanism enabled by the existence of a public sphere (Schlesinger, 1991; Grimm, 1995; Habermas, 1996; Greven, 2000; Kielmannsegg, 2003; Schlesinger, 2007; for a critique see Van de Steeg, 2006)....
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...Likewise, notions that foresee a sphere of uninterrupted communication as the precondition for a community (Habermas, 1996; Schlesinger, 2007; Kielmannsegg, 2003) do not problematize the formation of a given political community, omitting processes of force that might have contributed to their…...
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...Yet, it plays a crucial role in the inherent tension between legal validity of agreements and their social facticity (Habermas, 1996)....
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...Likewise, notions that foresee a sphere of uninterrupted communication as the precondition for a community (Habermas, 1996; Schlesinger, 2007; Kielmannsegg, 2003) do not problematize the formation of a given political community, omitting processes of force that might have contributed to their formation and the existence of horizons from which contemporary European constitutionalism is forming....
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