The philosophical programme associated with the discourse ethics of Jürgen Habermas has been widely discussed in the literature. The fact that Habermas has devoted a considerable part of his work to the elaboration of this philosophical programme indicates that discourse ethics can be regarded as a cornerstone of his communication-theoretic approach to society. In essence, Habermas conceives of...

The print media in Kenya has been covering Kenya’s Parliamentary debates for decades. Parliament, on its part, played the role of being an important news source both and electronic media. As continues to fulfil core mandate informing public about operations latter also provides a vital media, hence, leading symbiotic relationship between two institutions, with main beneficiary. This research ex...

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...

In this paper I explore the potential for viewing education as an “unrestricted communication community” (Habermas 1990: 88), using categorisations from Habermas of different kinds of action as analytical tools for examining educational practices. For the paper, I pursue two main themes: 1) how the concept of communicative action in relation to the three forms of knowledge-constitutive interest...

Purpose. The purpose of the article lies in studying main socio-anthropological measurements problem recognition represented primarily by philosophy Alex Honneth, which is actualized struggle Ukrainian people for their existence and national-cultural recognition. A consistent analysis communicative paradigm contemporary led to understanding its transformation into reality identification forms i...

Hinglaj Devi: Identity, Change, and Solidification at a Hindu Temple in Pakistan, by Jurgen Schaflechner. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. xiii + 343 pp., £85.96 (hb). ISBN 978-0-19-085052-4

SAMUEL BOWONG∗,†,§ and JURGEN KURTHS†,‡,¶ ∗Laboratory of Applied Mathematics, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Douala, P. O. Box 24157 Douala, Cameroon †Postdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK ), Telegraphenberg A 31, 14412 Potsdam, Germany ‡Department of Physics, Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin, 12489 Berlin, Germany §[email protected]...