POL 3652: HIST OF POL THOUGHT
MODERNITY AND ITS CRITICS
Jürgen
Habermas (1998). The Inclusion of the
Other: Studies in Political Theory. Cambridge,
MA: MIT Press.
Chapter 8: Struggles
for Recognition in the Democratic Constitutional State
These are questions for discussion:
- How does Habermas differentiate the four forms? They have different names,
of course, but they seem otherwise very similar: they all involve
"oppression, marginalization, and disrespect and thereby struggle for
the recognition of collective identities [211/1/5-7]. All are
"emancipation movements whose collective political goals are defined
primarily in cultural terms" [211/1/-4 – -2]. If
all these similarities obtain, why is Habermas taking the space to
distinguish them? What does distinguish them, and what theoretical
importance does that distinction have?
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