Trasformazione della teoria critica e questioni politiche: un confronto tra Jürgen Habermas e Jacques Derrida (Transformation of critical theory and political questions: a comparison between Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida)

Abstract

The evolution of Critical Theory in the thought of Jürgen Habermas has important consequences for political questions, influencing the actual intellectual debate. This paper examines the main works and studies of Habermas about the epistemology of social sciences, the critique of late capitalist society, the public sphere and democracy, and proposes a comparison with the positions of Jacques Derrida, to have a better comprehension of this evolution.

Keywords

• Critical Theory
• Politics
• Democracy
• Epistemology
• Modernity