Jürgen Habermas: Selected Summaries: SELECTED SUMMARIES

By MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

We have summarized the essentials of the following texts: From POLITICAL ESSAYS, POLITICAL ESSAYS, "The crisis of the Welfare State and the depletion of utopian energies", from THEORY AND PRAXIS, "The classical doctrine of politics and its relationship with philosophy ", a small fragment of" Science and technique as ideology "and the article" Modernity, an incomplete project ".

• Language: English
• Publisher: BOOKS AND SUMMARIES BY MAURICIO FAU
• Release date: Sep 29, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201221522

MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

Mauricio Enrique Fau nació en Buenos Aires en 1965. Se recibió de Licenciado en Ciencia Política en la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Cursó también Derecho en la UBA y Periodismo en la Universidad de Morón. Realizó estudios en FLACSO Argentina. Docente de la UBA y AUTOR DE MÁS DE 3.000 RESÚMENES de Psicología, Sociología, Ciencia Política, Antropología, Derecho, Historia, Epistemología, Lógica, Filosofía, Economía, Semiología, Educación y demás disciplinas de las Ciencias Sociales. Desde 2005 dirige La Bisagra Editorial, especializada en técnicas de estudio y materiales que facilitan la transición desde la escuela secundaria a la universidad. Por intermedio de La Bisagra publicó 38 libros. Participa en diversas ferias del libro, entre ellas la Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires y la FIL Guadalajara.

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Jürgen Habermas: Selected Summaries

SELECTED SUMMARIES

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JÜRGEN HABERMAS: SELECTED SUMMARIES

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Habermas, Jürgen | POLITICAL ESSAYS | THE CRISIS OF THE WELFARE STATE AND THE EXHAUSTION OF UTOPIAN ENERGIES | 1.

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Habermas. Jürgen | THEORY AND PRAXIS | THE CLASSICAL DOCTRINE OF POLITICS AND ITS RELATION TO SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY

Vico's profit and loss account in the comparison of the modern with the classical mode of study.

The relationship between Theory and Praxis in eighteenth-century social philosophy | The problem of a dialectical return of the theory of society to the experiential horizon of practical consciousness

Habermas, Jürgen | SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AS IDEOLOGY

Habermas, Jürgen | Modernity, an incomplete project

The discipline of aesthetic modernity

Cultural modernity and modernization of society

The Enlightenment Project

False culture denial programs

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POLITICAL ESSAYS

THE CRISIS OF THE WELFARE STATE AND THE EXHAUSTION OF UTOPIAN ENERGIES

1.

From the end of the eighteenth century, in the West, a new consciousness of the time is being constituted: the present is conceived as a transition to the new, to a future that will be different.

The past is also taken into account: for the first time, history is considered as a unitary process that affects the whole of humanity.

However, Modernity will no longer be guided by the guidelines of the past, but will try to draw from itself its own rules of action.

The spirit of the age receives the contributions of two apparently opposing intellectual   movements: historical and utopian thought.

Utopian thought proposes alternative social models to those that have been historically given.

Historical thinking seems to oppose utopias.

An example of this is the political thought of the French Revolution, in which the hope for a more just future is mixed with the counterweight of historical experiences.

Since the beginning of the 19th century, utopia has become an instrument of political struggle. Utopia was a genre used during the Renaissance: Thomas More, Campanella, Bacon were the most representative authors.

These novels never denied their fictional character.

Despite their criticism of the present, they had no relation to history.

This situation changed in the 19th century. A disciple of Rousseau writes a novel in which he proposes a paradisiacal future.

In this way, utopia and history come together.

Although utopia was criticized by many authors (including Marx), it was considered a means of proposing alternative ways of life.

At present, it seems that utopian energies have been exhausted.

The horizon of the future has shrunk and the zeitgeist has changed.

The situation towards the end of the century seems to lean towards pessimism:

›  the arms race

›  the impoverishment of underdeveloped countries

›  growing social inequalities

›  environmental pollution

›  increasingly sophisticated technologies

Intellectuals and politicians are perplexed by the new situation

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The utopias of the Renaissance proposed a happy life through the organization of society under certain principles.

The utopias of the 19th century are more realistic.

Nature and society will be mastered rationally, through science, technology and planning.

But it is this vision that has now broken down. Science is offered to us today in its darkest aspect (nuclear energy, weapons   technology, biogenetic manipulation, mass media, etc.).

The hopes on which Modernity  was founded have become its opposite:

- ·  autonomy became dependence

- ·  emancipation became oppression

- ·  rationality became irrationalism

In order to abandon Western Modernity, different thinkers propose alternative ways out.

Intellectuals suspect that the current situation is not temporary, but represents a change in the consciousness of the times, which would consist in the separation of utopian and historical thinking.

To speak of postmodernity is