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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Democratic Theory with Critical Intent: Reply to Newey
Contributor:
O'Neill, Shane
Published:
SAGE Publications, 2002
Published in:
The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 4 (2002) 1, Seite 98-114
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1111/1467-856x.41072
ISSN:
1369-1481;
1467-856X
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
My critical assessment of competing views on the marching controversy at Drumcree is found wanting by Glen Newey for at least three reasons. The Habermasian approach I adopt is alleged to be motivationally deficient, politically ineffectual and blind to its own decisionistic partiality. Here I indicate that the force of Newey's critique is neutralised once one attends to the important differences between Habermas' moral theory and his discourse theory of law and democracy. I argue, furthermore, that Newey's critique is insufficiently attuned to the institutional context of my argument, and that his line of reasoning has troubling political implications.