Legitimacy and Diversity

ProtoSociology 6:236-272 (1994)
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Abstract

In general, Habermas has more readily accommodated conflicts of interst in his discourse theory of democracy than he has conflicts of values, ways of life, and worldviews. Though he has continouously elaborated upon notions of "ethical-political" discourse, culture, and identity since 1988, his treatments of diversity, pluralism, multiculturalism, and multinationalism have left agreement at the center and disagreement in the margins of his conception of legitimacy. This essay examines the development of that conception from the early 1970s to the present and argues that "the consent of the governed" cannot be given so cognitive an interpretation as Habermas gives it.

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