Right to dissent : the critical principle in discourse ethics and deliberative democracy / Ojvind Larsen ; translated by Russell Dees.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Larsen, Øjvind, author.

Contributor:

Dees, Russell, translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social ethics.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (430 p.)

Place of Publication:

Copenhagen, Denmark : Museum Tusculanum Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The right to dissent includes both the right to speak of what is right and wrong and the moral obligation to give good reasons for a particular statement. In a modern democratic society the right to dissent is one of the most fundamental rights. Inherent in the right to dissent, we find the paradoxical morality of modern society, which consists of a critical assessment of what should be deemed right or wrong. The right to dissent has to be secured through the civil rights of participation in political deliberation and the cultivation of these legal rights in the public spheres of a deliberative democracy. The ethics of dissent is developed in this book through a new interpretation of the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas? communicative ethics and his political philosophy. Freedom, the right to dissent, and thoughtful critique are emphasized in the concept of negative discourse ethics. This critical perspective is integrated in a broader interpretation of Habermas? theory of communicative action and related to the classical traditions of political philosophy represented by Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, and Rawls. Øjvind Larsen further develops the philosophical perspective in a sociological discussion of civil society, public spheres, politics, law and a globalizing society, considered in relation to the classical tradition of sociology ? represented by Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, Bauman, Foucault, and Bourdieu.

Contents:

Front cover

Title page

Colophone

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

The phenomenology of social ethics

Social-ethical dimensions

Theses on a modern social ethics

The four leading questions

Method

Summary of the contents

Chapter I: The classical philosophical discussion of the relationship between ethics and modernity

Chapter II: The sociological discussion of the relationship between ethics and modernity

Chapter III: Recent philosophical discussions of the relationship between ethics and modernity

Chapter IV: Ethics and politics. Chapter V: Ethics, law and democracy

Chapter VI: The challenge of social ethics

Chapter I - The classical philosophical discussion of the relationship between ethics and modernity

Kant

Kant's ethics

Kant's political philosophy

Discussion

Hegel

Hegel's Philosophy of Right

Morality and ethical life

Family

Civil society

The state

Kierkegaard and Marx

Kierkegaard's critique of Hegel

Marx's critique of Hegel

The bifurcated society '

Habermas - Social ethics in language.

Ambivalent social ethics

Chapter III - Recent philosophical discussions on the relationship between ethics and modernity

Existentialism

Phenomenological forms of ethics

Zygmunt Bauman - postmodern ethics

Modernity and the Holocaust

Postmodern ethics

Critique

The political

The postmodern

Reconstruction

Peter Kemp - ethics and narrativity

Hans Jonas - the ethics of responsibility

Utilitarianism - goal-rational ethics

Ole Thyssen - the ethics of systems theory

Habermas - communicative ethics

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

87-635-3431-2

OCLC:

932310596