The Jusphilosophical and Legal Foundations of Communication Law: An Analysis from the Perspective of Jurgen Habermas s Thought

• Grant number: 08/08726-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: April 01, 2009
• End date: April 30, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Law - Theory of Law
• Principal Investigator: Eduardo Carlos Bianca Bittar
• Grantee: Vitor Souza Lima Blotta
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Direito (FD). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 98/14262-5 - Center for the Study of Violence, AP.CEPID

Abstract

This project aims to delineate the main objectives, theoretical basis and justifications, as well as the first outlines of the arguments that are intended to serve as basis for the following thesis: tracing the research paths opened by Jürgen Habermas's philosophy of law project in Faktizität und Geltung (1992), by which the legitimate formation of a democratic rule of law depends on the openness of the mediatic public sphere to create a "constitutionally channeled" circulation of public communications between civil society and political system, it becomes clear an urgent need for a historical and philosophical reconstruction of the self-understanding of the internal relation between communication and law, within which can be identified, and normatively justified, the basic principles of a Communication Law as an autonomous legal discipline that could enhance the vitality of complex societies' public spheres, and thus promote the self-construction of a substantively democratic social integration.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

BLOTTA, Vitor Souza Lima. Communication law: reconstruction of the normative principles of the political public sphere through thr thouhgt of Jürgen Habermas.. 2012. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Direito (FD/SBD) São Paulo.