Jürgen Habermas (2022), Ein neuer Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit und die deliberative Politik, Berlín, Suhrkamp Verlag, 108 pp.

Abstract

In his new book published in 2022 Ein neuer Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit und die deliberative Politik (A new structural change in public space and deliberative politics) Jürgen Habermas undertakes, on the one hand, a series of clarifications and extensions on the model of deliberative politics, as well as the central adjacent concepts, such as consensus (Konsens), ideal speech situation (ideale Sprechsituation) and political public space (politische Öffentlichkeit), particularly from agonistic approaches to the political. On the other hand, Habermas addresses the fundamental question of the impact on the public space of the current digitization processes of the mass media and the current empire of social networks in public affairs and political processes, which forms the first section of this new work. In the second part of this, two short texts are included in which Habermas offers two extensions to his explanation of the concept of deliberative Politik (deliberative politics), which is dependent, he emphasizes, on a democratic formation of the will in space. public-political.