HABERMASÇI MÜZAKERECİLİĞE KARŞI

Year 2014, Issue: 18, 173 - 188, 01.12.2014

Murat Kazancı

Abstract

Bu çalışmada, Habermasçı müzakereci demokrasinin eleştirel bir değerlendirilmesi sunulmakta ve demokratik idealdeki değerli konumuna rağmen siyasetin içeriğini ve alanını daraltması hasebiyle Habermas’ın ‘kamusal müzakere’ kavramının müzakereci demokrasiyi alternatif bir demokrasi teorisi olarak düşünmemiz için yeterli olmadığı iddia edilmektedir. Burada, Habermasçı müzakereciliğin, çeşitlilikler dolayısıyla ortaya çıkan ihtiyaçlara cevap veremediği, bunun da bu anlayışın 1 dışlayıcı, 2 elitistoligarşist açıklanmaktadır. Mevcut düzenin korunmasına odaklanan Habermasçı demokrasi yerine günümüz çoğulcu toplumlarında dışlanmış kesimlerin demokratik alana dahil edilmesi ve mevcut problemlere cevap vermek üzere kamusal-siyasal alanın genişletilmesi adına agonistik demokrasiye ihtiyaç duyulmaktadır

Keywords

Habermas, kamusal müzakere, agonistik demokrasi

AGAINST HABERMASIAN DE A LIBERATION

Abstract

This study offers a critical evaluation of Habermasian deliberative democracy, arguing that despite its valuable place in democratic ideal, Habermasian ‘public deliberation’ is not enough to think deliberative democracy as an alternative theory of democracy as it diminishes the content and space of the politics. Habermasian deliberation is less responsive to the needs of diversity for its 1 exclusionary, 2 elitist-oligarchic, and 3 depoliticizing aspects. Instead of a Habermasian understanding of democracy that is oriented to maintain existing order, today’s pluralistic societies needs agonistic understanding of democracy for including excluded segments of societies as well as for widening the public-political space to respond the present problems

Keywords

Habermas, public deliberation, agonistic democracy

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