A CATEGORIA DE ESFERA PÚBLICA EM JÜRGEN HABERMAS: PARA UMA RECONSTRUÇÃO DA AUTOCRÍTICA

Abstract

This Article has the objective to do a reconstructive reading of a fundamental theme explored by Jürgen Habermas: the category of "public sphere". It is examined in context of the passage between the theoretical universe of Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit (1962) and Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns (1981) in relation to that one of Faktizität und Geltung (1992). In this transition, Habermas reformulates a series of questions introduced in its inquiries on the theme of public sphere, and formulates a modified theoretical perspective. The key moment of this transition is the "preface" to the new edition of Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit, published in 1990. This approach can be unfolded in two axles that if correlate: a) A reformulation of the category (its limitations and deficiencies), the extension of the contents and enlargement of the infrastructure of the public sphere, including new characteristics and new functions; b) The new position of the public sphere through an internal rearrangement in the extended theoretical context of the communicative action and in the reformulation of the relation system-lifeworld of the theory of society