Public spaces and popular sovereignty

Liquid sovereignty without subject in Habermas's theory of deliberative democracy

Authors

  • Julio De Zan Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) / Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina

Abstract

The following text by Dr. Julio De Zan was read by the author at the X Latin-american Colloquium on Discourse Ethics, organized by the ICALA Foundation and held in Río Cuarto, Argentina, in November 2015. It was his last lecture at such events, and therefore the reflections it contains are among his last unpublished contributions to political philosophy and democratic theory. Presumably, the text was to be revised by the author before final publication. Based on the version available to the colloquium's commentator, Professor Jorge R. De Miguel, we reproduce here, with minor corrections and adjustments, the lecture delivered by the distinguished philosopher at the above-mentioned colloquium.

Author Biography

  • Julio De Zan, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) / Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina

    Julio De Zan was born in Buenos Aires on November 27, 1940. He holds a PhD in philosophy from the Universidad del Salvador. He has done postdoctoral studies in Germany as a fellow of the Humboldt-Stiftung (Hegel-Archiv-Bochum 1979/81) and the German Latin American Cultural Exchange Foundation (Frankfurt 1987/88). Professor of Contemporary Philosophy at the National University of Entre Ríos (Paraná), Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy. He has taught postgraduate courses at national and foreign universities. Konex Humanities Award, 1996, in the discipline of Ethics, at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín, (Buenos Aires) and Senior Researcher at CONICET.

    Member of several national and international academic associations in his specialty. Founding member of Tópicos, Revista de Filosofía de Santa Fe and Director until 2012. Member of the Advisory Board of Cuadernos de Ética (Buenos Aires), Cuadernos del Sur (Universidad Nacional del Sur), Erasmus, Revista para el Intercambio Cultural (Fundación ICALA), Educación en Ciencias sociales (UNGM), Perspectivas metodológicas (UNLanús), and the International Committee of the Jahrbuch für Hegelforschung, Bochum, Germany.

    His works have focused on ethics and political philosophy, with special attention to modern and contemporary German philosophy and to the problematic of Latin American and Argentinean thought.

    He has published some 200 books, chapters and articles. Among his main books are: Hacia una Filosofía de la Liberación Latinoamericana, Buenos Aires, 1973; Ética comunicativa y democracia (in collaboration), Barcelona, 1991; Libertad, Poder y Discurso, Buenos Aires, 1993; Éticas del Siglo (in collaboration), Rosario, 1994; Panorama de la ética continental contemporánea, Madrid, 2002; La filosofía práctica de Hegel, Ediciones del ICALA, Río Cuarto, 2003; La ética, los derechos y la justicia, Montevideo, 2004; La Ética del discurso. Recepción y crítica desde América Latina (in collaboration), Río Cuarto, 2007; Los sujetos de lo político en la Filosofía moderna y contemporánea, Buenos Aires, 2008; La Filosofía Social y política de Hegel, Buenos Aires, 2009; La vieja y la nueva política, Buenos Aires, 2013; La gramática profunda del ethos. Una lectura de la ética de Kant, Buenos Aires, 2013; "Reconocimiento, intersubjetividad y lenguaje", in M. Rojas / K. Vieweg Reconocimiento, libertad y justicia. Actualidad de la Filosofía práctica de Hegel, Itaca, Mexico D.F. 2014; "La libertad y el concepto de lo político en Hegel", in M. Giusti: Dimensiones de la libertad. Sobre la actualidad de la Filosofía del Derecho de Hegel, Anthropos/Siglo XXI Barcelona/Lima, 2015; La primera Filosofía del espíritu de Hegel, (translation from German, notes and studies), Buenos Aires, 2017.

    He was declared illustrious citizen of Santa Fe by the Municipal Council (2009). He died in that city on August 18, 2017.

References

Arendt, H. (1997). ¿Qué es política? (Trad. R. Sala Carbó). Barcelona: Paidós.

Habermas, J. (1992). Faktizität und Geltung. Beiträge zur Diskurstheorie des Rechtes und des demokratischen Rechtsstaats. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.

Habermas, J. (1998). Facticidad y validez. Sobre el derecho y el Estado democrático de derecho en términos de teoría del discurso (Trad. M. Jiménez Redondo). Madrid: Trotta.

Natanson, J. (2015, 3 de octubre). La normalidad como excepción. Le Monde diplomatique, 196.

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2020-08-14

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Vol. 22 No. 1 (2020): Ethics, rationality, and democracy. A tribute to Julio De Zan

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Public spaces and popular sovereignty: Liquid sovereignty without subject in Habermas’s theory of deliberative democracy. (2020). Erasmus. Revista Para El diálogo Intercultural, 22(1). https://mail.qellqasqa.com.ar/ojs/index.php/erasmus/article/view/653