Skip to main content
Log in

Democracy and the post-enlightenment: Lyotard and Habermas reappraised

  • The Philosophy of Democracy in Modernist and Postmodernist Thought
  • Published:
International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Arblaster, Anthony,Democracy (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987).

    Google Scholar 

  • Arnason, Johann P., “The Theory of Modernity and the Problematic of Democracy,”Thesis Eleven, No. 26, 1990, pp. 20–43.

    Google Scholar 

  • Avineri, Shlomo,Hegel's Theory of the Modern State (Cambridge, GB: Cambridge University Press, 1988).

    Google Scholar 

  • Beck, Ulrich,Risikogesellschaft. Auf dem Weg in eine andere Moderne (Frankfurt/M.: Suhrkamp, 1986; English translation forthcoming).

    Google Scholar 

  • Bell, Daniel,The Coming of Post-Industrial Society, (New York: Basic Books, 1973).

    Google Scholar 

  • Bernstein, Richard “Rorty's Liberal Utopia,”Social Research, Vol. 57, No. 1 (Spring 1990).

  • Blumenberg, Hans,The Legitimacy of the Modern Age (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1983).-German original.Die Legitimität der Neuzeit (Frankfurt/M.: Suhrkamp 1966; extended and revised version: 1973–1976).

    Google Scholar 

  • Bobbio, Norberto,The Future of Democracy (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1987).

    Google Scholar 

  • Cronin, Thomas E.,Direct Democracy. The Politics of Initiative, Referendum, and Recall (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989).

    Google Scholar 

  • Crozier, Michel J., Samuel Huntington, Joji Watanuki,The Crisis of Democracy (New York: New York University Press, 1975).

    Google Scholar 

  • Dahl, Robert A.,A Preface to Economic Democracy (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1985).

    Google Scholar 

  • Dahl, Robert A.,Democracy and Its Critics (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1989).

    Google Scholar 

  • Dickey, Laurence, “Blumenberg and Secularization: ‘Self-Assertion’ and the Problem of Self-Realizing Teleology in History,”New German Critique, 41 (Spring-Summer 1987): 151–165.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dubiel, Helmut, “Demokratie,” inWas ist Neokonservatismus? (Frankfurt.M.: Suhrkamp, 1985), pp. 46–67.

    Google Scholar 

  • Duncan, Graeme (ed.),Democratic theory and practice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983).

    Google Scholar 

  • Feyerabend, Paul,Against Method. Outline of an anarchistic theory of knowledge [1975] (London: Verso, 1978).

    Google Scholar 

  • Feyerabend, Paul,Science in a Free Society [1978] (London: Verso, 1982).

    Google Scholar 

  • Frank, Manfred,Die Grenzen der Verständigung. Ein Geistergespräch zwischen Lyotard und Habermas (Frankfurt/M.: Suhrkamp, 1988).

    Google Scholar 

  • Gorz, André,Critique of Economic Reason, (New York: Verso, 1989).

    Google Scholar 

  • Gould, Carol C.,Rethinking Democracy. Freedom and social cooperation in politics, economy, and society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988).

    Google Scholar 

  • Green, Phlip,Retrieving Democracy. InSearch for Civil Equality (Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Allanheld, 1985).

    Google Scholar 

  • Gutmann, Amy (ed.),Democracy and the Welfare State (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988a).

    Google Scholar 

  • Gutmann, Amy, “Distributing Public Education in a Democracy”, 1988b, in Gutmann, 1988a: 107–130.

  • Habermas, Jürgen, “Die Dialektik der Rationalisierung. Vom Pauperismus in Produktion und Konsum.”Merkur, 1964, 710–724.

  • Habermas, Jürgen, “Reflektion über den Begriff der politischen Beteiligung,” in Jürgen Habermas et al.,Student und Politik (Neuwied: Luchterhand, 1961).

    Google Scholar 

  • Habermas, Jürgen, “On Systematically Distorted Communication,”Inquiry, Vol. 13, 1970, pp. 205–217.

    Google Scholar 

  • Habermas, Jürgen, and Niklas Luhmann,Theorie der Gesellschaft oder Sozialtechnologie—Was leistet die Systemforschung? (Frankfurt/M.: Suhrkamp, 1971).

    Google Scholar 

  • Habermas, JürgenLegitimation Crisis [1973] (Boston: Beacon Press, 1975).

    Google Scholar 

  • Habermas, JürgenTheory of Communicative Action, Vol. I: “Reason and the Rationalization of Society” [1981] (Boston: Beacon Press, 1984).

    Google Scholar 

  • Habermas, Jürgen, “The New Obscurity: The Crisis of the Welfare State and the Exhaustion of Utopian Energies” [1985]Philosophy and Social Criticism, 2, Vol. II (Winter 1986).

  • Habermas, Jürgen,Theory of Communicative Action, Vol. II: “Lifeworld and System: A Critique of Functionalist Reason” [1981] (Boston: Beacon Press, 1987).

    Google Scholar 

  • Habermas, Jürgen,The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere [1962] (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989a).

    Google Scholar 

  • Habermas, Jürgen,On the Logic of the Social Sciences [1967] (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989b).

    Google Scholar 

  • Habermas, Jürgen, “Remarks on the Discussion” (Utrecht Symposium on Habermas), Theory, Culture & Society, 7, November 1990.

  • Held, David,Models of Democracy (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1987).

    Google Scholar 

  • Heller, Agnes, “Habermas and Marxism,” in John B. Thompson and David Held (eds.),Habermas—Critical Debates (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1982).

    Google Scholar 

  • Huyssen, Andreas, “Mapping the Postmodern,” in hisAfter the Great Divide. Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1986), pp. 179–221.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ingram, David, “Legitimacy and the Postmodern Condition: The Political Thought of Jean-François Lyotard,”Praxis International, 7: 3/4 (Winte), 1987/88.

  • Jacoby, Henry,The Bureaucratization of the World (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973).

    Google Scholar 

  • Jameson, Frederic, “Foreword”, in Lyotard (1984: vii-xxi).

  • Keane, John,Democracy and Civil Society (London and New York: Verso, 1988).

    Google Scholar 

  • Lash, Scott,Sociology of Postmodernism (London and New York: Routledge, 1990).

    Google Scholar 

  • Lefort, Claude,Democracy and Political Theory (Minneapolis, MI: University of Minnesota Press, 1988).

    Google Scholar 

  • Lipson, Leslie,The Democratic Civilization (New York: Oxford University Press, 1964).

    Google Scholar 

  • Löwith, Karl,Meaning in History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1949).

    Google Scholar 

  • Luhmann, Niklas,Zweckbegriff und Systemrationalität (Frankfurt/M.: Suhrkamp, 1973).

    Google Scholar 

  • Luhmann, Niklas, “The Future of Democracy,”Thesis Eleven, No. 26, 1990 pp. 46–53.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lyotard, Jean-François,The Postmodern Condition. A Report on Knowledge [1979] Theory and History of Literature, Vol. 10 (Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis Press, 1984).

    Google Scholar 

  • Lyotard, Jean-François,The Differend. Phrases in Dispute [1983] Theory and History of Literature, Vol. 46 (Minneapolis, MI: University of Minnesota Press, 1988).

    Google Scholar 

  • Lyotard, Jean-François, and Jean-Loup Thébaud,Just Gaming. Theory and History of Literature, Vol. 20 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1985).

    Google Scholar 

  • Neumann, Franz, “The Concept of Political Freedom,” in hisThe Democratic and the Authoritarian State (Glencoe, IL: The Free Press, 1957).

    Google Scholar 

  • O'Connor, James,The Fiscal Crisis of the State (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1972).

    Google Scholar 

  • Offe, Claus, “‘Ungovernability’: the renaissance of conservative theories of crisis” in:Contradictions of the Welfare State (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1984), pp. 65–87.

    Google Scholar 

  • Pateman, Carole,The Disorder of Women. Democracy, Feminism and Political Theory (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1989).

    Google Scholar 

  • Phillips, Anne,Engendering Democracy (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991).

    Google Scholar 

  • Rödel, Ulrich, Günter Frankenberg, Helmut Dubiel.Die demokratische Frage (Frankfurt/M.: Suhrkamp, 1989).

    Google Scholar 

  • Rorty, Richard, “Habermas and Lyotard on Post-Modernity,”Praxis International 4: 1 April 1984, pp. 32–44.

    Google Scholar 

  • Schumpeter, Joseph A.,Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1942).

    Google Scholar 

  • Spragens, Thomas A.Reason and Democracy (Durham: Duke University Press, 1990).

    Google Scholar 

  • Thomas, Wendell, ADemocratic Philosophy (New York: Correlated Enterprises, 1938).

    Google Scholar 

  • van Reijen, Willem, “Philosophical-Political Polytheism: Habermas versus Lyotard,”Theory, Culture and Society 7: 4, Nov. 1990, pp. 95–104.

    Google Scholar 

  • Veblen, Thorstein,The Vested Interests and the State of the Industrial Arts (New York: Huebsch, 1919.

    Google Scholar 

  • Vidich, Arthur, J., “American Democracy in the Late Twentieth Century: Political Rhetorics and Mass Media,”International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1990, pp. 5–29.

    Google Scholar 

  • Vidich, Arthur J., “The End of the Englightenment and Modernity: The Irrational Ironies of Rationalization,”International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, Vol. 4, No. 3 (Spring 1991), pp. 269–284.

    Google Scholar 

  • Vidich, Arthur J., and Michael W. Hughey, “Fraternization and Rationality in Global Perspective,”International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, Vol. 2, No. 2, 1988, pp. 242–256.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wallace, Robert M., “Progress, Secularization and Modernity: The Löwith/Blumenberg Debate,”New German Critique, 22 (Winter 1981): 63–79.

    Google Scholar 

  • Watson, Stephen, “Jürgen habermas and Jean-François Lyotard: Post-modernism and the Crisis of Rationality,”Philosophy and Social Criticism 1984, 2, pp. 1–24.

    Google Scholar 

  • Weber, Max,Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, 5th ed. (Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1972).

    Google Scholar 

  • Welsch, Wolfgang,Unsere Postmoderne Moderne (Weinheim: VCH Acta humaniora, 1987).

    Google Scholar 

  • White, Stephen K., “Justice and the Postmodern Problematic,”Praxis International, 7: 3/4 (Winter) 1987/8.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wiggeshaus Rolf,Die Frankfurter Schule. Geschichte—Theoretische Entwicklung—Politische Bedeutung (München: Carl Hanser, 1986).

    Google Scholar 

  • Wolin, Sheldon S.,The Presence of the Past. Essays on the State and the Constitution (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1989).

    Google Scholar 

  • Wolin, Sheldon S., “Democracy in the Discourse of Postmodernism,” inSocial Research, 57, 1 (1990).

Download references

Authors

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Dahms, H.F. Democracy and the post-enlightenment: Lyotard and Habermas reappraised. Int J Polit Cult Soc 5, 473–509 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01423903

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01423903

Keywords

Navigation