A DEPOLITICIZATION OF PUBLIC SPHERE IN JÜRGEN HABERMAS UNDER A SOCIO­POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.7443/problemata.v3i1.12657"><i> <b>[doi: 10.7443/problemata.v3i1.12657]</b></i></a>

Authors

  • Jorge Adriano Lubenow

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7443/problemata.v3i1.12657

Keywords:

Jürgen Habermas, Esfera Pública, Política, Legitimação, Ideologia

Abstract

The paper provides an analysis of a fundamental theme explored by Jürgen Habermas – The depoliticization of the public sphere - in a sociopolitical perspective. For this bias, the depoliticization is characterized by functional and structural change and consequent disintegration of the public sphere, by the abandoning the idea of neutralizing the domination and rationalize the power through the medium of the public sphere. This problem is examined in the context of structural and functional transformation of the public sphere: the sociohistorical process by which the bourgeois public sphere, originally established in civil society is gradually undermined by the economic pressures of the capitalist system and the growing influence of the mass-media. In this structural and functional change, Habermas already indicates the eclipse of the public sphere as a political institution and the consequent depoliticization of society. This depoliticization reveals the negative character of politics in advanced capitalist societies, excluding of public communication inconvenient topics for the system power and that could, justly, lead individuals to promote the opening of problematic speeches and thus the proposal that protects the general and public interests and to guide an emancipatory praxis, based on a model of rational critic public sphere. The text is divided into three parts: the structural and functional transformation of the public sphere, which emphasizes the growing state interventionism in the economic base of society (1); the critique of the ideological nature of the technique, which attempts to uncover the relationship between instrumental reason and technocratic domination and its consequences in a political practice (2); and the analysis of legitimation problems in advanced capitalism, of the modern forms of legitimation of technocratic variant (3).
Keywords: Jürgen Habermas, Public Sphere, Politics, Legitimation, Ideology.

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Published

2012-05-29

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 1 (2012)

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