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Neste artigo buscamos debater aspectos centrais do conceito de reificação de Georg Lukács em sua obra “História e Consciência de Classe”. Nosso objetivo, no entanto, é mostrar a interpretação proposta por Axel Honneth como uma atualização do conceito de reificação, através de uma tentativa de superar a tradição epistemológica de sujeito-objeto em prol de uma teoria da intersubjetividade. Honneth parte de sua teoria do reconhecimento para propor uma formulação contemporânea do conceito de reificação. Postulando problemas teórico-sociais e ontológicos, esse entendimento sobre a reificação traz implicações para sua própria trajetória intelectual, bem como para pensarmos a teoria crítica no contexto da sociedade contemporânea.
O presente estudo visa mostrar como Honneth repensa os conceitos de justiça e autonomia a partir de sua teoria das condições intersubjetivas de reconhecimento. Sua tese afirma que só é possível um aumento na autonomia pessoal através do progresso moral nas estruturas sociais de reconhecimento. Veremos que a proposta de Honneth, apesar de inovadora, traz alguns problemas para sua aplicação na esfera política; mesmo assim, é uma proposta forte e indaga-nos especialmente sobre a forma como nossa autonomia é construída socialmente.
This paper reconstructs the argument of Axel Honneth's recent book Das Recht der Freiheit as a theory of the institutionalization of freedom in modern society. In particular, it looks at Honneth's argument for the realization of freedom in law and morality that is proposed as a contemporary re-interpretation of Hegel's Philosophy of Right. Then I discuss Honneth's argument for the reality of freedom in the ethical spheres of civil society, in particular in the family, the market and in democracy. Finally, the paper proposes some critical remarks to Honneth's theory.
Axel Honneth的認肯理論及其教育蘊義
(2019)
本研究旨在探究Axel Honneth的認肯理論,並闡釋其在教育上的意義。本研究基於運用哲學思考法與文本詮釋學方法對Honneth的認肯理論進行理解、分析與重構出認肯理論的重要面向與實踐意涵。首先,對認肯理論的理 論基礎進行探究,並分析認肯理論的結構與相應原則;其次,將Honneth認肯理論放在其所運用的個體情感發展、社會機制反思與法理政治實踐層面進行具體分析,闡釋對現代性影響下各行動領域之發展與問題的分析;最後,基於前述對Honneth認肯理論的研究,分析在當今民主社會中教育存在之病態與可能性,並在情感、法理與社會層級中,以自愛、自尊與自我實現為目 標,具體從認知、情意與技能三面向提出在教育上的理論面與應用面的蘊義.
A banalização da fraude no ambiente acadêmico impõe severos problemas à formação dos indivíduos. Este estudo fez uso da teoria crítica relacionada à educação. Adorno analisou o problema da semiformação na sociedade capitalista, em que a educação se tornou mais uma mercadoria a ser entregue a seus consumidores. O objetivo deste artigo foi propor a reflexão crítica sobre os reais sentidos da persistência da fraude nas universidades. Portanto, a fraude acadêmica destaca-se como uma evidência de que há algo errado com a educação fornecida pelas universidades. Somente uma mudança pedagógica pode transformar o caminho da educação inserida na sociedade capitalista. O resgate do potencial emancipatório da educação é fundamental para que a sociedade possa formar pessoas críticas e autônomas.
Em alguns de seus trabalhos Talcott Parsons descreveu o estabelecimento das sociedades modernas como um processo de diferenciação de diversas esferas de reconhecimento recíproco. Neste texto eu uso a teoria social do reconhecimento de Parsons para examinar características de conflitos sociais recentes. Começo expondo a descrição que Parsons fez das lutas por reconhecimento ocorridas nas sociedades altamente industrializadas de sua época. Depois tomo a concepção de Parsons sobre conflitos por reconhecimento normativamente orientados para indicar tendências que levaram a uma gradual erosão das estruturas de pacificação social postuladas por Parsons nas últimas décadas do século 20. Descrevo as consequências iniciais dessa desintegração como uma “barbarização” dos conflitos sociais. Por barbarizado entendo um estágio da sociedade em que as lutas por reconhecimento social escalaram e se tornaram anômicas, uma vez que não podem mais ser resolvidas nas esferas sistêmicas estabelecidas de negociação. Este texto revela a importância do conceito de reconhecimento para a teoria social ao acompanhar Parsons na análise de transformações estruturais que atualmente emergem em resposta a conflitos sociais. Resumo do editor.
Der Militär Chávez ist der Hoffnungsträger der sozialen Bewegung in Venezuela. Seine Rolle ist aber ambivalent. Einerseits stützt er die zunehmende Macht der Basisarbeit. Anderseits scheint Chávez ihr alleiniger Garant der Beteiligung und schwächt so die Selbstorganisation wieder. Klientelistische Strukturen, wachsende Korruption und das gescheiterte Verfassungsreferendum zeigen die Grenzen des jetzigen Transformationsprozesses auf.
Migranten werden in politischen Debatten oft als festgefügte Gemeinschaft betrachtet, die in ihrer eigenen nach außen abgeschotteten Welt leben – in einer Parallelgesellschaft. Doch ist das wirklich so? Wie gestalten insbesondere junge Leute mit Migrationshintergrund ihre sozialen Bindungen, wenn sie sich in der urbanen Clubszene europäischer Großstädte bewegen? Das Team um die Soziologin und Kulturanthropologin Kira Kosnick untersucht die Dynamiken dieser Prozesse.
Zwei traditionelle Wirkungsbereiche von Intellektuellen, die politische Medienöffentlichkeit und das akademische Feld, unterliegen seit über drei Jahrzehnten anhaltenden strukturellen Veränderungen. Diese gelten vielfach als Ursache einer tiefen Krise oder sogar des Verschwindens der Intellektuellen. Doch um welche Veränderungen geht es dabei genau, und wie restrukturieren sie die gegenwärtige Rolle und Funktion von Intellektuellen? Zur Beantwortung dieser Fragen entwickelt der Beitrag einen Ansatz, der die struktur- und erfahrungsbezogenen Bedingungen intellektueller Praxis fokussiert und historisch vergleichend analysiert. Um eine Vergleichsfolie zu gewinnen, wird die intellektuelle Praxis Theodor W. Adornos analysiert. Dabei zeigt sich, dass Adorno die charakteristischen Widersprüche öffentlichen und akademischen intellektuellen Engagements methodisch aufrechterhielt, indem er eine Position des „Dazwischen“ reklamierte. Vor diesem Hintergrund werden seit den 1970er-Jahren forcierte strukturelle Veränderungen der Medienöffentlichkeit und des akademischen Feldes als Prozesse der „Vereindeutigung“ interpretiert, die eine widerspruchsaffine intellektuelle Praxis erschweren. In der Folge lassen sich eine ausgeweitete kommerzielle sowie eine eingeschränkte akademische Intellektuellenpraxis beobachten, die jeweils politisch wirksame Interventionen begrenzen.
This study points out the methodological centrality assumed by the notion of “physiognomy”, both in Benjamin and in Adorno, namely the idea that the forms of the works of art, and generally those of the visual phenomena, are direct “expression”, in a micro-monadological way, of an historical-social sense, not otherwise attainable. On the one hand Benjamin’s physiognomy shows a particular interpretative “openness” to its objects, on the other that of Adorno remains subjected to an epistemological model of “totality”, from the Hegelian-Marxian tradition, which risks compromising the hermeneutic efficacy of its own original philosophical approach.
Das Thema 'Unternehmensgründung/ berufliche Selbstständigkeit an deutschen Hochschulen' hat seit Mitte der 1990er Jahre zunehmend an Bedeutung gewonnen, denn es wird beabsichtigt, eine Kultur der Unternehmensgründung an den Hochschulen zu etablieren und die Studierenden auf eine berufliche Selbstständigkeit als potenzielle Zukunftsperspektive vorzubereiten. Auch der Gesetzgeber integrierte in den letzten Jahren die Gründungsfrage in den Handlungsauftrag der Universitäten, z.B. im neuen hessischen Hochschulgesetz. Der vorliegende Aufsatz berichtet über eine Untersuchung am Fachbereich Gesellschaftswissenschaften der Universität Frankfurt am Main mit dem Titel 'Gründung als Option für Sozialwissenschaften: Zur Integration des Gründungsthemas in der Lehre der Sozialwissenschaften'. Es wurde danach gefragt, in welcher Weise Studierende und Promovierende der Gesellschaftswissenschaften (Soziologie und Politikwissenschaft) im Rahmen ihres Studiums auf mögliche Tätigkeitsfelder einer selbstständigen Beschäftigung hingewiesen werden können und wie sie selbst solche Angebote beurteilen. Es werden einige Sichtweisen zur Gründung als persönliches Motiv und zur Berufsorientierung in den Sozialwissenschaften vorgestellt, die spezifischen Qualifikationsmerkmale des sozialwissenschaftlichen Studiums umrissen und einige Empfehlungen zur Beschäftigungsoption 'Selbständigkeit' gegeben. (ICI2)
All cosmopolitan approaches to global distributive justice are premised on the idea that humans are the primary units of moral concern. In this paper, I argue that neither relational nor non-relational cosmopolitans can unquestioningly assume the moral primacy of humans. Furthermore, I argue that, by their own lights, cosmopolitans must extend the scope of justice to most, if not all, nonhuman animals. To demonstrate that cosmopolitans cannot simply ‘add nonhuman animals and stir,’ I examine the cosmopolitan position developed by Martha Nussbaum in Frontiers of Justice. I argue that while Nussbaum explicitly includes nonhuman animals within the scope of justice, her account is marked by an unjustifiable anthropocentric bias. I ultimately conclude that we must radically reconceptualise the primary unit of cosmopolitan moral concern to encompass most, if not all, sentient animals.
Beyond radicalism and resignation: the competing logics for public participation in policy decisions
(2016)
Participation – like justice or freedom – is a term that can be constructed in multiple ways. However, existing typologies of participation pay little attention to the alternative logics for public participation in policy decisions: either they assume one particular normative bias or categorise by institutional design features without reference to the broader ideology that informs the use of these designs. This paper outlines an alternative approach that connects the variety in participatory practices to competing theories of democracy and public administration. It identifies four archetypes of participation: knowledge transfer; collective decision-making; choice and voice; and arbitration and oversight.
Der vorliegende Aufsatz analysiert die Bildungsreformen, die in Venezuela seit Antritt der Regierung unter Hugo Chávez im Februar 1999 in die Wege geleitet wurden. Nach einem kurzen historischen Überblick bis 1999 folgt eine Erörterung der grundlegenden Linien der Bildungspolitik. Daran schließt die Darstellung des neuen Modells der Escuelas Bolivarianas (Bolivarianische Schulen) an sowie der Misiones (Missionen) genannten Sonderprogramme im Bildungssektor, welche einen Schwerpunkt der Umsetzung des Anspruchs „Bildung für alle“ darstellen: Die Misión Robinson I, II und III für die Alphabetisierung und den Grundschulabschluss und die Misión Ribas für die weiterführende Schule. Darauf folgt die Beschreibung der Umsetzung der in der 1999 verabschiedeten Verfassung garantierten kostenlosen „Höheren Bildung für alle“ mittels der Misión Sucre und der Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela (Bolivarianische Universität Venezuelas, UBV) sowie des Berufsbildungsprogramms Misión Vuelvan Caras. ...
Hugo Chávez je leta 1989 s 56, 4% dobil predsedniške volitve. Uporabljal je protineoliberalni diskurz, še posebej proti privatizaciji državnega naftnega koncerna Petroleos de Venezuela S. A. (PDVSA) in obljubil volitve za ustavodajno skupšcino. Drugega februarja 1999 je prevzel mandat, 25. julija je bila izvoljena ustavodajna skupšcina, 15. decembra je bila preko referenduma z 80% glasov izvoljena nova ustava, "Bolivarijanska ustava". Leta 2000 je bil Chávez v skladu z novo ustavo in z 59,7% glasov ponovno izvoljen. Njegovo kampanjo so podpirale skoraj vse leve stranke, bazicni sindikati, staroselske kmetice in kmetje ter bazicne organizacije. Trenutno je vlada sestavljena iz petih strank in sloni na široki osnovi. ...
Brock and justification
(2011)
Browsing the web for school: social inequality in adolescents’ school-related use of the internet
(2019)
This article examines whether social inequality exists in European adolescents’ school-related Internet use regarding consuming (browsing) and productive (uploading/sharing) activities. These school-related activities are contrasted with adolescents’ Internet activities for entertainment purposes. Data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2012 is used for the empirical analyses. Results of partial proportional odds models show that students with higher educated parents and more books at home tend to use the Internet more often for school-related tasks than their less privileged counterparts. This pattern is similar for school-related browsing and sharing Internet activities. In contrast to these findings on school-related Internet activities, a negative association between parental education and books at home is found with adolescents’ frequency of using the Internet for entertainment purposes. The implications of digital inequalities for educational inequalities are discussed.
This article discusses obstacles to overcoming dangerous climate change. It employs an account of dangerous climate change that takes climate change and climate change policy as dangerous if it imposes avoidable costs of poverty prolongation. It then examines plausible accounts of the collective action problems that seem to explain the lack of ambition to mitigate. After criticizing the merits of two proposals to overcome these problems, it discusses the pledge and review process. It argues that pledge and review possesses the virtues of encouraging broad participation and of providing a procedural safeguard for the right of sustainable development. However, given the perceptions of the marginal short term costs of mitigation, pledge and review is unlikely, at least initially, to issue in an agreement to make deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Because there is no rival approach that seems likely to better instantiate the two virtues, pledge and review may be the best available policy for mitigation. Moreover, recent economic research suggests that the co-benefits of mitigation may be greater than previously assumed and that the costs of renewable energy may be less than previously calculated. This would radically undermine claims that the short term mitigation costs necessarily render mitigation irrational and produce collective action problems. Given the circumstances, pledge and review might be our best hope to avoid dangerous climate change.
Este trabajo es el resultado de la investigación Capital Humano como factor de crecimiento Económico, en el cual se desarrolla una reflexión crítica sobre la teoría del Capital Humano, el abordaje se hace desde la teoría económica y el análisis tiene como referente los planteamientos de la Escuela de Frankfurt, especialmente en lo que tiene que ver con el uso desde la perspectiva de la racionalidad. Desde el punto de vista metodológico se trata de una investigación cualitativa, basada en un proceso de carácter interpretativo y comprensivo de tipo Histórico Hermenéutico, el método utilizado responde a una finalidad de descripción, interpretación, argumentación, que permitan avanzar hacia la comprensión de las temáticas estudiadas en un proceso dialéctico. Como resultado del proceso investigativo se hace un análisis de la instrumentalización de la educación, la formación, la capacidad de trabajo y el estado de salud del hombre, y aún de su propio ser, las cuales se consideran de la misma naturaleza que una maquina y quedan cosificadas al ser convertidas en mercancías comerciales que se venden en el mercado, lo que determina la posibilidad de colocarle un precio pagado en el mercado a la productividad de un tipo de trabajo determinado, a la acción del propio hombre y el desarrollo de sus capacidades superiores que deberían permitirle contribuir al logro de una sociedad mejor y una vida más digna.
Nach ihrer angeblichen Demobilisierung in Kolumbien im Jahr 2003 begannen die Paramilitärs, massiv nach Venezuela einzusickern. Von den Grenzgebieten aus hatten sie sich zunächst im Gebiet des Andenkorridors im Nordwesten Venezuelas ausgebreitet. Sogar logistische Zentren zur Unterstützung der konterrevolutionären Aktivitäten einschließlich der Anwesenheit ausländischer Spezialisten soll es in der Region geben. Militärstrategischer Logik folgend wird nach dem Andenkorridor die Paramilitärpräsenz im Zentrum, also in Caracas und dem angrenzenden Bundesstaat Miranda, gestärkt. Als letztes wird der Aufbau einer »Ostfront« entlang der Achse Sucre-Delta/Amacuro/Bolívar, den drei östlichsten Bundesstaaten, sichtbar. (...)
Marco Revelli, un des acteurs de l’occupation de l’université de Turin en 1967, est aujourd’hui professeur de sciences politiques de cette même université. Il a publié de nombreux livres et textes sur le fordisme et le post-fordisme. Cet entretien a été réalisé à l’automne 1997 par Dario Azzellini pour la revue berlinoise Arranca ! : la revendication du revenu garanti ne pouvant se comprendre qu’à la lumière des mécanismes du marché du travail, il nous a semblé important de publier cette description claire, rapide et jusqu’à présent inédite en français, des tendances actuelles liées à la phase post-fordiste - entre autres choses, la centralité toujours plus forte du précariat et la faillite nécessaire des institutions syndicales. Propos traduits par Irène Bonnaud. ...
The article presents an analysis of the development of labour market risks in Germany in light of changing working poverty risks. Low hourly wages and part-time employment are identified as the main demand-side-related mechanisms for household poverty. Their measurement and development are discussed as well as their contribution to trends in working poverty risks. A rise in low wages, especially among part-time employed households, was decisive for the increase in working poverty risks in Germany by 45% between the end of the 1990s and the end of the 2000s. We therefore study these trends more closely in the multivariate analysis. The results show that while low wages are unequally distributed across occupations and industries, shifts in employment between sectors explain only a minor part of the change in low wages. However, they reveal a polarization of low-wage risks by skill-level and sector of employment, on the one hand, and full-time and part-time employees, on the other hand.
China’s law to control international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) has sent shockwaves through international non-governmental organisations (NGOs), civil society and expert communities as the epitome of a worldwide trend of closing civic spaces. Since the Overseas NGO Management Law was enacted in January 2017, its implementation has seen mixed effects and diverging patterns of adaptation among Chinese party-state actors at the central and local levels and among domestic NGOs and INGOs. To capture the formal and informal dynamics underlying their mutual interactions in the longer term, this article employs a theory of institutional change inspired by Elinor Ostrom’s distinction between rules-in-form versus rules-in-use and identifies four scenarios for international civil society in China – “no change,” “restraining,” “recalibrating” and “reorienting.” Based on interviews, participant observation and Chinese policy documents and secondary literature, the respective driving forces, plausibility, likelihood and longer-term implications of each scenario are assessed. It is found that INGOs’ activities are increasingly affected by the international ambitions of the Chinese party-state, which enmeshes both domestic NGOs and INGOs as agents in its diplomatic efforts to redefine civil society participation on a global scale.
In ‘Justice and Natural Resources,’ Chris Armstrong offers a rich and sophisticated egalitarian theory of resource justice, according to which the benefits and burdens flowing from natural (and non-natural) resources are ideally distributed with a view to equalize people’s access to wellbeing, unless there are compelling reasons that justify departures from that egalitarian default. Armstrong discusses two such reasons: special claims from ‘improvement’ and ‘attachment.’ In this paper, I critically assess the account he gives of these potential constraints on global equality. I argue that his recognition of them has implications that Armstrong does not anticipate, and which challenge some important theses in his book. First, special claims from improvement will justify larger departures from the egalitarian default than Armstrong believes. Second, a consistent application of Armstrong’s life planfoundation for special claims from attachment implies that nation-states may move closer to justify ‘permanent sovereignty’ over the resources within their territories than what his analysis suggests.
Four years after the Panama Papers scandal, tax avoidance remains an urgent moral-political problem. Moving beyond both the academic and policy mainstream, I advocate the “democratization of tax enforcement,” by which I mean systematic efforts to make tax avoiders accountable to the judgment of ordinary citizens. Both individual oligarchs and multinational corporations have access to sophisticated tax avoidance strategies that impose significant fiscal costs on democracies and exacerbate preexisting distributive and political inequalities. Yet much contemporary tax sheltering occurs within the letter of the law, rendering criminal sanctions ineffective. In response, I argue for the creation of Citizen Tax Juries, deliberative minipublics empowered to scrutinize tax avoiders, demand accountability, and facilitate concrete reforms. This proposal thus responds to the wider aspiration, within contemporary democratic theory, to secure more popular control over essential economic processes.
Four years after the Panama Papers scandal, tax avoidance remains an urgent moral-political problem. Moving beyond both the academic and policy mainstream, I advocate the “democratization of tax enforcement,” by which I mean systematic efforts to make tax avoiders accountable to the judgment of ordinary citizens. Both individual oligarchs and multinational corporations have access to sophisticated tax avoidance strategies that impose significant fiscal costs on democracies and exacerbate preexisting distributive and political inequalities. Yet much contemporary tax sheltering occurs within the letter of the law, rendering criminal sanctions ineffective. In response, I argue for the creation of Citizen Tax Juries, deliberative minipublics empowered to scrutinize tax avoiders, demand accountability, and facilitate concrete reforms. This proposal thus responds to the wider aspiration, within contemporary democratic theory, to secure more popular control over essential economic processes.
The system of representative democracy is under considerable strain. Its institutions are struggling to maintain legitimacy, and its elected representatives are failing to keep their monopoly on (formal) political representation. An emerging multitude of (new) claim makers contests the authority of elected representatives as well as the functioning of the existing system of representative democracy by alleging misrepresentation. In this article, we identify a significant shortcoming in Saward’s claims-making approach; specifically, we argue that it offers little direction in addressing misrepresentation. We distinguish between claims of representation and claims of misrepresentation, and show how the latter can fulfill one, two or all three of the following functions: (1) they appeal to an enemy/antagonist (strategy), (2) identify causes of misrepresentation related to policies, politics, and polity (persuasion), and (3) claim to create a new linkage to "the people", sometimes present themselves as new representatives (reframing). To test this proposed framework, we compare claims of misrepresentation in Brazil made by civil society groups (before and during the presidential impeachment between 2014 and 2016) and in Germany (focusing on the parliamentarians of the Alternative for Germany during the first six months of mandate). Our results suggest that claims of misrepresentation are not intrinsically democratic or undemocratic, but are instead ambiguous, have different manifestations and disparate impacts on the representative system. Our article contributes to the conceptual development of the claims approach and to further understanding several critical and current challenges to representative democracy.
This article seeks to build a bridge between the empirical scholarship rooted in the traditional theory of political representation and constructivist theory on representation by focusing on the authorization of claims. It seeks to answer how claims can be authorized beyond elections - selecting three democratic innovations and tracing claims through the claim-making process. Different participatory democratic innovations are selected - providing various claims and taking place in different institutional contexts, i.e., (elected) members of the Council of Foreigners Frankfurt; individual citizens in participatory budgeting procedures in Münster; and citizen’s associations elected politicians in the referendum campaign in Hamburg. We first analyze the claims raised by the different claim-makers to identify their claimed constituency eligible to authorize claims. In the second step, we focus on the authorization by the claimed constituency and the relevant decision-making authority. The article finds that claim-making in democratic innovations is fractured and incomplete. Nevertheless, this is not the reason to dismiss democratic innovations as possible loci of representation; on the contrary, seen through the prism of claim-making, all representation – electoral and nonelectoral – is partial. Focusing on the authorization of claims in democratic innovations provides novel inferences about the potential and limits of democratic innovations for broadening democratic representation.
t is becoming less and less controversial that we ought to aggressively combat climate change. One main reason for doing so is concern for future generations, as it is they who will be the most seriously affected by it. Surprisingly, none of the more prominent deontological theories of intergenerational justice can explain why it is wrong for the present generation to do very little to stop worsening the problem. This paper discusses three such theories, namely indirect reciprocity, common ownership of the earth and human rights. It shows that while indirect reciprocity and common ownership are both too undemanding, the human rights approach misunderstands the nature of our intergenerational relationships, thereby capturing either too much or too little about what is problematic about climate change. The paper finally proposes a way to think about intergenerational justice that avoids the pitfalls of the traditional theories and can explain what is wrong with perpetuating climate change.
However far we are from either in practice, basic global and intergenerational justice, including climate change mitigation, are taken to be theoretically compatible. If population grows as predicted, this could cease to be the case. This paper asks whether that tragic legacy can now be averted without hard or even tragic choices on population policy. Current generations must navigate between: a high-stakes gamble on undeveloped technology; violating human rights; demanding unbearable sacrifices of the already badly off; institutional unfairness across adults; institutional unfairness across children; failing to protect children’s basic interests; and threatening the autonomy of the family. We are not yet forced to choose between bequeathing a tragic choice and making one, by adopting basically unjust measures. However, even the remaining options present a morally hard choice. The fact we face it is yet another damning indictment on the combined actions and collective failures of the global elite.
Climate justice
(2015)
Coercion or privatization? Crisis and planned economies in the debates of the early Frankfurt School
(2023)
The 1930s–1940s underwent profound structural economic and political turmoil following the collapse of the nineteenth century liberal market economies. The intellectual debates of the time were dominated by the question of whether Marx’s theory of the tendency of rate of profit to fall was true, or what consequence could be imagined in the survival of capitalist societies. Placed in the middle of such debates was also the reorganization of national productions into war economies. By means of reconstructive analysis, the paper provides a critical overview of the debates that took place within the circle of the Frankfurt School during those years. It also advances an interpretive thesis suggesting that remedies to capitalist crises of the time turned state powers into privatized, illiberal coercive entities. Coercion and privatization reinforced each other. This general tendency is well illustrated by the famous Pollock-Neumann debate. These intellectuals expressed views not only intended to shed light on the historical period of time, but also to formulate long-term considerations on the authoritarian trends embedded in our contemporary democracies. Through historical reconstruction, the paper’s aim is to identify a long-term structural thread of transformation starting from the transformation of the German economy in 1930s and touching upon post Second World War problems of states’ restructuring along privatization/coercion divides.
Coming of voting age. Evidence from a natural experiment on the effects of electoral eligibility
(2024)
In recent years, several jurisdictions have lowered the voting age, with many more discussing it. Sceptics question whether young people are ready to vote, while supporters argue that allowing them to vote would increase their specific engagement with politics. To test the latter argument, we use a series of register-based surveys of over 10,000 German adolescents. Knowing the exact birthdates of our respondents, we estimate the causal effect of eligibility on their information-seeking behaviour in a regression discontinuity design. While eligible and non-eligible respondents do not differ in their fundamental political dispositions, those allowed to vote are more likely to discuss politics with their family and friends and to use a voting advice application. This effect appears to be stronger for voting age 16 than for 18. The right to vote changes behaviour. Therefore, we cannot conclude from the behaviour of ineligible citizens that they are unfit to vote.
This essay presents contributions by Jürgen Habermas and Paulo Freire for the constitution of critical-reflexive subjects and the implications in the teaching-research-extension processes in the field of Organizational Studies. We show that intersubjectivity and dialogicity are conditions for the understanding between subjects and it is precisely through these conditions that the subjects are constituted, in a process that is dialogical, pedagogical and political. Freire and Habermas offer elements to deconstruct dominant instrumental logic and provide the basis for the reconstruction of unprecedented-viable possibilities of ways of organizing and managing. Therefore, this article highlights the importance of Organizational Studies to broaden the focus of teaching-research-extension possibilities and directs them to a communicative and dialogic engagement, beyond the borders of universities. This reconstruction indicates that researchers participate in different public arenas, debate and build public problems, processes of resistance, visibility, and dramatization of problematic issues. Observing the contributions of Freire and Habermas, Organizational Studies as a field cannot be limited to developing a critique, from a distant point of view: it is necessary to co-participate, co-act, co-operate and co-construct with its public.
Mapping a public discourse with the tools of computational text analysis comes with many contingencies in the areas of corpus curation, data processing and analysis, and visualisation. However, the complexity of algorithmic assemblies and the beauty of resulting images give the impression of ‘objectivity’. Instead of concealing uncertainties and artefacts in order to tell a coherent and all-encompassing story, retaining the variety of alternative assemblies may actually strengthen the method. By utilising the mobility of digital devices, we could create mutable mobiles that allow access to our laboratories and enable challenging rearrangements and interpretations.
Este artigo apresenta contribuições de Jürgen Habermas e Paulo Freire para a constituição de sujeitos crítico-reflexivos e suas implicações nos processos de ensino/pesquisa/extensão no campo dos Estudos Organizacionais. Mostramos que intersubjetividade e dialogicidade são condições para o entendimento entre sujeitos e é justamente por meio delas que ocorre sua constituição em um processo que é dialógico, pedagógico e político. Freire e Habermas oferecem elementos para desconstruir a lógica instrumental dominante e fornecem bases para a reconstrução de possibilidades inéditas/viáveis de formas de organizar e gerir. A partir disso, este artigo destaca a importância dos Estudos Organizacionais ampliarem o foco das possibilidades de ensino/pesquisa/extensão e direciona-os para um engajamento comunicativo e dialógico, ultrapassando as fronteiras das universidades. Essa reconstrução indica aos pesquisadores que participem de diferentes arenas públicas, do debate e da construção de problemas, em processos de resistência, da visibilidade e dramatização de questões problemáticas. Nos caminhos de Freire e Habermas, os Estudos Organizacionais não podem apenas desenvolver uma crítica à distância: é preciso coparticipar, co-agir, co-operar e coconstruir com os públicos em que se engajam.
Tras presentar una somera panorámicade la evolución experimentada por la noción de «comunidad» desde Aristóteles hasta Hegel, este trabajo se detiene a analizar la célebre distinción acuñada por Ferdinand Tónnies entre sociedad y comunidad. Mientrasen Europa se tergiversaron enfoques teóricos como el de Tónnies hasta propiciar el surgimiento de auténticas aberraciones políticas, al contribuir involuntariamente a la creación del mito de la «comunidad del pueblo», en los Estados Unidos el debate sobre la «comunidad» siempre representó un ingrediente indispensable para una mejor comprensión de la sociedad liberal. Aun cuando, a partir de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el concepto de «comunidad» brillópor su ausencia en las reflexiones de la teoría política, durante los últimos años la discusión en torno al «comunitarismo» ha estimulado una inesperada revitalización del mismo y su presencia en toda suerte de consideraciones morales, políticas o sociológicas.
L’autor sosté que el que caracteritza les societats liberals democràtiques és un cert grau d’intersubjectivitati cohesió. Segons ells, els liberals coincideixen amb els comunitaristes aconsiderar que aquestes característiques només poden aparèixer en la forma de «comunitat».Partint d’aquesta coincidència, argumenta, primer, presentant un concepte mínim de comunitaten el qual tots els comunitaristes estarien d’acord i que conté, com a nucli, el supòsitque l’autorealització humana va unida a una praxi vital comunitària. Aquesta autorealitzaciórau en l’estimació mútua entre els qui viuen en societat. La qüestió és establir relacionsde solidaritat de manera que les capacitats de l’altre puguin fer possible l’enriquimentde la pròpia vida. El concepte mínim de comunitat postradicional es definirà finalmentcom aquesta forma de solidaritat que implica estimació mútua i que, alhora, uneix amb elsupòsit de valors compartits.
Concepts historiques du capitalisme industriel avancé : « capitalisme organisé » et « corporatisme »
(2018)
Les économistes comme les spécialistes de sciences sociales semblent largement s’accorder sur le fait que le capitalisme industriel est entré à un moment donné dans une phase avancée de son développement, tout particulièrement dans ses variantes que l’on observe en Europe de l’Ouest, en Amérique du Nord et au Japon. Que le capitalisme se situe encore à cette étape, ou qu’il l’ait entre-temps déjà dépassée et laissée à nouveau derrière lui, il se différencie à tout le moins de la phase antérieure (ou bien des phases antérieures), à laquelle on peut rattacher le début d’une première industrialisation et l’avènement de l’industrialisation massive (Hochindustrialisierung). ...
A concepção de indivíduo na sociedade administrada é analisada por Horkheimer e Adorno (1973), no ensaio Indivíduo no livro Temas Básicos da Sociologia, cujo método de exposição instiga à reflexão sobre a concepção de indivíduo e as possibilidades de formação e educação na sociedade administrada, demonstrando que a concepção de indivíduo na Filosofia ora tendia para uma ênfase na subjetividade em detrimento das condições objetivas sociais, ora tendia à totalidade social, negligenciando a singularidade do indivíduo. Em seguida, estabelecem articulações entre as diferentes esferas complementares (indivíduo e sociedade) e as consequências sobre a formação do indivíduo e a educação na contemporaneidade, problematizadas por Adorno (2000), em sua obra Educação e Emancipação, quanto às suas possibilidades e limites na sociedade administrada.
This article is an attempt to re-read the magnum opus of Adorno's philosophy, namely Aesthetic Theory, using an interpretative key offered by Agata Bielik-Robson's book entitled Jewish Cryptotheologies of Late Modernity: Philosophical Marranos. This interpretative key, called by the Author The Marrano Strategy implemented to Adorno's late philosophy allows us to investigate the common points of Adorno's theory of art criticism and modern Jewish thought. Therefore the main question of this text concerns the characteristics of Jewishness and messianicity (Scholem, Derrida) in Adorno's Aesthetic Theory. The thesis that I am attempting to justify is as follows: the implementation of Marrano strategy to the modern art criticism redefines and reverses the relationship between the particular element and the universal domain. Consequently, this dialectical 'appreciation' of the particular establishes a common conceptual field for critical thinking and traditional, religious motifs.
O estudo aqui desenvolvido trata da formação da consciência social tensionada pela alienação e emancipação intersubjetiva. O problema da pesquisa é saber como o agir comunicativo de Habermas pode contribuir para a formação da consciência social/ética, contraposta aos processos de alienação. Para tanto, será feito uma releitura histórico-conceitual de alguns pontos da filosofia habermasiana. Objetiva-se, assim, discutir quais os principais elementos da Teoria do Agir Comunicativo contribuem para a formação de uma consciência social que concilie comunidade e pluralidade. Os sujeitos inevitavelmente fazem parte de certos contextos. Participar de um contexto/comunidade, exige uma consciência social atravessando as relações, o que implica co-responsabilidade e cooperação. Por fim, a formação de uma consciência sócio-ética só é possível através de uma comunicação aberta e argumentativa, cuja normatividade traz uma pretensão de validade pública.
This reading of Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park suggests that the semantic framework of the novels is provided by the contrast between two meanings of the word consequence, the archaic meaning of social or emotional importance and the common and garden meaning of effect of a cause. It also suggests that the narrative structure of the novels is that of a game of consequences, a game that was played at the time of Jane Austen.
The paper addresses the problem of justifying ethically sound dimensions of poverty or well-being for use in a multidimensional framework. We combine Sen’s capability approach and Rawls’ method of political constructivism and argue that the constitution and its interpretative practice can serve as an ethically suitable informational basis for selecting dimensions, under certain conditions. We illustrate our Constitutional Approach by deriving a set of well-being dimensions from an analysis of the Italian Constitution. We argue that this method is both an improvement on those used in the existing literature from the ethical point of view, and has a strong potential for providing the ethical basis of a conception of well-being for the public affairs of a pluralist society. In the final part, we elaborate on the implications for measuring well-being based on data, by ranking Italian regions in terms of well-being, and pointing out the differences in results produced by different methods.
This paper critically engages the legal and political framework for responding to democracy and rule of law backsliding in the EU. I develop a new and original critique of Article 7 TEU based on it being democratically illegitimate and normatively incoherent qua itself in conflict with EU fundamental values. Other more incremental and scaleable responses are desirable, and the paper moves on to assess the legitimacy of economic sanctions such as tying access to EU funds to performance on democratic and rule of law indicators or imposing fines on backsliding states. I hold such sanctions to be a priori legitimate, and argue that in some cases economic sanctions are even normatively required, given that EU material support of backsliding member states can amount to material complicity in their backsliding. However, an economic conditionality mechanism would need to be designed to minimize unjust and counterproductive effects. One way to pursue this could be to complement sanctions against the backsliding government with investment for prodemocratic actors in that state.
Contemporary closed circuits – subversive dialogues : artistic strategies against surveillance
(2010)
In the past years surveillance, especially visual surveillance systems, have entered our cities and streets on a large scale. In my hometown Frankfurt/Main, the city centre and traffic-hubs have become zones under intensive surveillance. Over 120 cameras are installed at the central station, over 2,000 at the airport. In such highly surveilled places it is impossible to remain unobserved. The extent of surveillance in the United Kingdom and the USA offers a glance into the future. In these countries visual surveillance systems have spread into the farthest corners of cities and villages and into the privacy of their inhabitants.
This development calls for artistic endeavours which examine the phenomenon and raise people’s awareness of CCTV. Subversive strategies have to be developed which counter the inherent power relations of surveillance systems and foster self-confident, active behaviour towards the instruments of control.
The ongoing artistic project, Contemporary Closed Circuits – Subversive Dialogues, examines practices of contemporary visual surveillance. The works explore possibilities of interaction with and subversion of systems of observation. Most of the works were produced during the past three years as an artistic final thesis at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.