Why More Political Theory?

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The red thread running through Habermas' political writings is the attempt to redeem the promise of the classical concept of politics to provide practical orientation to the “just and good life,” without relinquishing the rigor of scientific analysis. In the light of the definitive separation, since Max Weber, of the social sciences from normative reflection, Habermas' theory confronts the question of how, within a political situation, we can obtain clarification of what is practically necessary and at the same time objectively possible. This question reflects the concern to challenge the positivism of the social sciences as well as both the ideology of advanced capitalist societies to which this positivism corresponds so well, i.e., the tendential separation of politics and morality, the scientization of the former and the relegation of the latter to the residual realm of irrational choices.

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