Abstract

GONZALEZ, Julián. Bringing back the exiled who never left: Habermas as a conflictivist?. Estud. filos. práct. hist. ideas [online]. 2014, vol.16, n.2, pp.31-43. ISSN 1851-9490.

Chantal Mouffe has strongly criticized the Jürgen Habermas' deliberative proposal for what she asserts is the negation of political conflict. In this paper we reconsider this objection by rebuilding this critique through four different dimensions which consider the possibilities of comprehension and acceptation of antagonism. Thus, in opposition to what Mouffe supports, we assert that even though his deliberative model emphasizes the consensual dimension of the communicative practice, conflict lays on the basis of the Habermas' theoretical structure as a necessary and unavoidable concept.

Keywords : Deliberative Democracy; Political Consensus; Political Antagonism; Universal Pragmatics.

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