Abstract

AGUIRRE, Javier. The Cosmopolitan and Universal Scopes of Habermas' Proposal about the Role of Religion in the Public Sphere. Co-herencia [online]. 2016, vol.13, n.24, pp.213-241. ISSN 1794-5887.  https://doi.org/10.17230/co-herencia.13.24.8.

Habermas has presented a normative account of the role of religion in the public sphere of a deliberative democracy. In my paper I want to show that Habermas' account is not limited to the ''national borders of a deliberative democracy'' since it entails global challenges to the (emerging) world society. My paper will have the following structure: First, I will present Habermas' remarks on the current post-national constellation and its untamed global capitalism. Second, I will make explicit the cosmopolitan scope of Habermas' perspective. Finally, on the basis of the two prior sections, I will present some questionings related to the alleged universal nature of Habermas' proposal, especially pertaining to the debates that take place within the institutional spaces of democracies.

Keywords : Post-secularism; Global Public Sphere; Religion; Deliberative Democracy; Habermas.

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