Teze za komunikacijsko-teorijsko utemeljenje demokracije
Theses for Founding Democracy on a Theory of Communication

Summary/Abstract: In Habermas' work Theory o f Communicative Activity the author discovers a basis for a normative founding of democracy he contemporary theory of democracy lacks reliable normative pivots which might help to explain the validity of democratic institutions. The remaining sources of binding norms can he found in the evolutionary degrees of growth that can be recognized In the historical process and in the layers of social and cultural traditions built into the so-called life-world. Following Habermas who finds presuppositions for an undistorted discourse free to show that the unaffected structures of the life-world can function as a normative orientation for the construction of democratic institutions.

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