Legitimacy and Political Violence: A Habermasian Perspective

Part of a special section on the intersection of ideologies of violence. The writer examines Jurgen Habermas's views as they apply to the issue of legitimacy, as it has taken shape in the violent conflicts between terrorist organizations and states. She contends that there are difficulties with...

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Autor principal: Cook, Deborah (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2003
En: Social justice
Año: 2003, Volumen: 30, Número: 3, Páginas: 108-126
Acceso en línea: Volltext (Verlag)
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Palabras clave:
Habermas, Jürgen, 1929-
Terrorists
Rights
Political Obligation
Political Violence
Social sciences > Philosophy
Legitimacy of governments
Power (Social sciences)
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Sumario:Part of a special section on the intersection of ideologies of violence. The writer examines Jurgen Habermas's views as they apply to the issue of legitimacy, as it has taken shape in the violent conflicts between terrorist organizations and states. She contends that there are difficulties with the Habermasian view of terrorism as a response to legitimation deficits for two reasons: firstly, he infers that terrorism has a single cause, or, at best, a set of related causes; and secondly, Habermas does not consider that terrorism has involved a far more expansive contestation of a state's claims to legitimacy.
ISSN:2327-641X