The tension between civil society and state in the legitimation process: civil disobedience in the philosophy of Jürgen Habermas

• Grant number: 21/02445-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: September 01, 2021
• End date: August 31, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy
• Principal Investigator: Raphael Cezar da Silva Neves
• Grantee: Jonathan Alves de Oliveira
• Host Institution: Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Osasco. Osasco , SP, Brazil

Abstract

In view of the relevance of civil disobedience to contemporary political theory and practice, the present project seeks to interpret the concept in the work of Jürgen Habermas, relating it to the tension between civil society and the State in the process of legitimation. In an important recent contribution, Civil Disobedience (2018), William E. Scheuerman presents difficulties in his interpretation of Habermas' work, with little or no presence of themes essential to Habermasian thinking that raise relevant issues, among which legitimation stands out with considerable evidence. One can clearly affirm the lack of a broad reading of Habermas's work since Scheuerman does not consider the development and changes in the author's thinking - especially with regard to the changes between his lecture on civil disobedience in 1983 and Between Facts and Norms (1992). In view of the relevance of the subject of legitimation in contemporary times and the differences identified in the thinking of the German philosopher over time, this project aims to identify in the works of Habermas the coherence established between civil disobedience and legitimation, using Civil Disobedience (2018) as a guiding thread that will also be criticized. (AU)