Dissent, Criticism, and Transformative Political Action in Deliberative Democracy
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Dissent, Criticism, and Transformative Political Action in Deliberative Democracy. / Rostbøll, Christian F.
In: Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2009, p. 19-36.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Dissent, Criticism, and Transformative Political Action in Deliberative Democracy
AU - Rostbøll, Christian F.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Many discussions of deliberative democracy ignore or misunderstand the purposes of the ideal speech situation in Habermas' theory. These purposes are to show the possibility of dissent in actual communication and of supplying a normative standard of social criticism. I elaborate the significance of these purposes and show some of the shortcomings of deliberative theory that ignores them. However, the ideal speech situation fails to supply anything like a strategy for political action under conditions hostile to deliberation. I seek to fill this void by arguing for a limited consequentialism, according to which nondeliberative means are legitimate if and only if they further deliberative goals and do not unnecessarily violate the intrinsic values of public deliberation.
AB - Many discussions of deliberative democracy ignore or misunderstand the purposes of the ideal speech situation in Habermas' theory. These purposes are to show the possibility of dissent in actual communication and of supplying a normative standard of social criticism. I elaborate the significance of these purposes and show some of the shortcomings of deliberative theory that ignores them. However, the ideal speech situation fails to supply anything like a strategy for political action under conditions hostile to deliberation. I seek to fill this void by arguing for a limited consequentialism, according to which nondeliberative means are legitimate if and only if they further deliberative goals and do not unnecessarily violate the intrinsic values of public deliberation.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - deliberation
KW - ideal speech situation
KW - Habermas
KW - proceduralism
U2 - 10.1080/13698230902738577
DO - 10.1080/13698230902738577
M3 - Journal article
VL - 12
SP - 19
EP - 36
JO - Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy
JF - Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy
SN - 1369-8230
IS - 1
ER -
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