nedson

Is hard to read this book, the writing is very complicated. But if you read the book with someone it might be a very interesting book. Habermas looks at the radical moment during the rise of the Bourgeoisie family and society and their struggle against the feudal order. In this moment there seems to be the enlightenment promise of holding power accountable and making it more transparent. However as the book draws to close he asserts that this promise faded away and rather you have an individualism disconnected from society and history and facilitating the convergence of civil society and the state, and the demise of the public sphere and the creation of a refedualization process where a new hierarchy of control of society is developed. This is central point but there is all kind of other stuff. But he is questioning this point the entire time I think...

2023-02-09 13:49