Hauke Brunkhorst and the concept of democratic solidarity as criticism to Jürgen Habermas’ post-national public sphere

This essay is about the reformulation of Habermas’ concept of public sphere by Hauke Brunkhorst. It aims to rebuild this critic and to elucidate the counterproposal of public sphere from the concept of democratic solidarity. For Brunkhorst, the concept of public sphere, such as extended by Habermas...

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Author: Lubenow, Jorge Adriano
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2013
Country:Brasil
Institution:Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)
Repository:Veritas (Porto Alegre. Online)
Language:Portuguese
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br:article/13568
Online Access:https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/veritas/article/view/13568
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Hauke Brunkhorst
Jürgen Habermas
public sphere
democratic solidarity
esfera pública
democracia solidária.
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Summary:This essay is about the reformulation of Habermas’ concept of public sphere by Hauke Brunkhorst. It aims to rebuild this critic and to elucidate the counterproposal of public sphere from the concept of democratic solidarity. For Brunkhorst, the concept of public sphere, such as extended by Habermas to European and global context, would be insufficient to understand the globalized postnational political constellations. The advantage would be to provide a more flexible and less tight concept of public sphere to the institutional framework.