Public Sphere, Recognition and Minorities: the Habermas-Fraser Dialogue

Abstract

Nancy Fraser outlined a procedural understanding of the recognition it has possibility to fight close political group of authenticity. Jürgen Habermas emphasizes a deliberative model and a historical analysis of the public sphere, through a theoretical learning that culminated in 1992 with Faktizität und Geltung . We intend to demonstrate, based on Fraser and Habermas, who, before a backdrop of exclusion from official public space, it is necessary to expand discursive arenas, otherwise reproduce and maintain the dominant asymmetries. Fraser, in Scales of Justice , argues for a transnational public sphere in which there is a re-articulation of decision processes, overcoming the boundaries of national states territorially located . We advocate to analyze the evolution of conceptions of the public sphere in Habermas and Fraser along their theoretical trajectories. Habermas, until 2011, there was an ambiguity that oscillated between the thin approach of constitutional patriotism  and  dense European conception of self .Indeed, we intend to investigate how Habermas, in On the Constitution of Europe - an Essay, Habermas resolves this ambiguity in relation to the understanding of the public sphere, teaching citizens, through digital technology and moral standards, assess European economic structures collating existing institutions to the demands of global justice . We argue, based on Habermas, that such discussions should take effect within a world parliament composed of states and citizens.