Conference paper

REPUBLICANISM AND LIBERALISM AS FOUNDATIONS OF MODERNITY

Zvonko Posavec ; HAZU, Strossmayerov trg 14, 10000 Zagreb

Abstract

Republicanism and liberalism, as foundations of Modernity, are presented in
terms of how they are interconnected and condition one another, as expressed
in the conception of Jurgen Habermas’ deliberative democracy. Firstly, both
concepts are concisely defined; republicanism stresses the principle of virtue
and community, while liberalism reveals the freedom of the individual and
of particular provinces as the basic point in the development of a free order.
Secondly, the author shows how Habermas links the two in the concept of deliberative
democracy as inseparable parts of the modern political order. After
that, the way is discussed in which Habermas uses the concept in his analysis
of the European Union, i.e. of the possibility of deliberative democracy in the
space of Europeization and globalization. The author concludes that, viewed
from the perspective of Europeization and globalization, the effective potency
of republicanism has become significantly reduced, while the potency of neoliberal
tendencies has grown, with decidedly fatal consequences.

Keywords

republicanism; liberalism; Modernity; deliberative democracy; Habermas

Hrčak ID:

97855

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/97855

Publication date:

14.2.2013.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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