Marx's meaning of materialism as well as the extent of Hegel's influence on his thought has been in the center of controversy among Marxists ever since the publication in 1923 of Lukdcs' History and Class Consciousness and Korsch's Marxism and Philosophy with the Frankfurt school, including Marcuse, embracing the Hegelian interpretation. The controversy has resurfaced within the Frankfurt schoo...

In Between Facts and Norms, Habermas articulates a system of rights, including human rights, within the democratic constitutional state. For Habermas, while human rights, like other subjective rights have moral content, they do not structurally belong to a moral system; nor should they be grounded in one. Instead, human rights belong to a positive and coercive legal order upon which individuals...

Although Habermas’ sophisticated conception of constitutional patriotism successfully avoids the charge of trying to ground patriotism in a set of principles that is too thin and abstract to sustain a real sense of solidarity and belonging, his optimism regarding the prospect in modern pluralist societies of building a genuinely shared political culture is misplaced. The march of modernisation ...

The massive use of social media has led to the increasing phenomenon Islamic populism among netizens. This is marked by presence contemporary religious actors. One them Felix Siauw. paper aims analyze cyberspace and netizens, especially on Siauw's Instagram (IG) account. study used a qualitative approach in form netnography, through tracing IG Siaw collected data then being analyzed using Jurge...

The paper discusses Sharrock’s and Button’s criticism of our attempt to use Habermas’ communicative action theory to analyze group work platforms. We demonstrate that they misconstrue our goals of the paper, misinterpret our analysis of Habermas’ action types, and misunderstand the concept of critical science. At the end we question the usefulness of these types of debates in furthering CSCW re...

Since the publication of Between Facts and Norms, it appears to have gone largely unremarked by crit‐ ical theorists that Habermas has wholly abandoned the neo‐Parsonian systems‐theoretic account of so‐ cial systems developed in his middle period. In this paper, I argue not only that Habermas has developed a new vocabulary and theoretical structure for dealing with social systems ...

The communicative action theory of Habermas has been discussed and used within the research community of Language Action Perspective. The concept of validity claim is considered to be an important contribution. In his theory, Habermas has formulated three validity claims to be universal in communication: The claims for truth, rightness and truthfulness. A theoretical inquiry into the validity c...