CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Tskhadaia, Giorgi |
|---|---|
| Title | Dialectic Democratic Theory: Developing a Proper Democratic Theory by Combining the Theories of Lukacs and Habermas |
| Summary | Lukácsian Marxian critique of democracy and Habermas’s critique of Lukács continue to co-exist without any effort being put into reconciling two conflicting discourses. While the Lukácsian Marxist agenda of de-reification implies the expansion of freedom, the realization of the latter ideal is controversially postponed for the future communist society. On the other hand, Habermas neglects the possibility of such radical socio-economic changes that wouldn’t be necessarily harmful for the project of deliberative democracy. I am arguing that, despite the fact that the two doctrines are markedly different from each other, if they will be analyzed not as monolithic wholes, but as containing distinct, potentially independent concepts, there is a way to reconcile their claims. To solve the problem, I add the communicative rationality to the three central concepts of the Lukácsian dialectics and develop a new theory. The result will be the repetition neither of the already existing versions of Marxism nor the democratic theories critical of Marxist claims. |
| Supervisor | Rigi, Jakob |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/tskhadaia_giorgi.pdf |
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