J. Habermas, A. Honneth y las bases normativas de la teoría crítica
ISSN: 2172-9506
Year of publication: 2009
Volume: 1
Pages: 72-87
Type: Article
More publications in: Constelaciones: Revista de Teoría Crítica
Abstract
This article pretends to explain Habermas' and Honneth's way to deal with the matter of the normative basis of social criticism and critical social theory. In them, it is possible to show a connection between a formal quasi-transcendental strategy that pretends the reconstruction of the parameters that act as the condition of universal possibility of social criticism, and a conception of modernity as a historical process that produces the differentiation of those normative parameters. This conception ends up lending a normative character to modern western history, which has serious consequences for the critical scope of their respective social theories.