2004 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
The Relation between the Critical Social Theories and the Cultural Pluralism
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15520071
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
History of thought
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| Research Institution | Morioka College |
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Principal Investigator |
HIGURASHI Masao Moriokd College, Department of Socioculatural Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Professor in Philosophy, 文学部・社会文化学科, 教授 (70222239)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2003 – 2004
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| Keywords | Critical Social Theories / Pluralism / Multiculturalism / Jurgen Habermas / Axel Honneth / Discourse Ethics / Democratic Constitutional State / Recognition |
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| Research Abstract |
In this research I have analyzed the Critical Social Theories and the theories of cultural pluralism and examined their logical constructions and relations between them. First, I tried to analyze Habermas's discourse theory and Honneth's theory of recognition. Then my research was focused on Habermas's concept of democratic constitutional state, which is understood as what he developed as the discourse theory in the juristic sphere. To account for this more concretely, my article "Habermas's reconstruction of system of rights" (in The Current Situations of Critical Social Theories) treats the formation of 'system of rights' as the basis of democratic constitutional state. In my paper dubbed "The Ground Concept of Habermas's Discourse Ethics" I analyzed the process of formation of the discourse ethics, explaining the foundation of Habermas's discourse theories. Moreover, in "The basic structure of Habermas's theory of communicative actions" I dissected 'formal pragmatics' as the ground
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motives of Habermas's discourse theories. With respect to the Honneth's theory of recognition I reported "The development and controversial situations of the theory of recognition of Axel Honneth" in a symposium of The Tohoku Association of Sociology. By publishing the joint Japanese translation of The Other of Justice, I recognized certain development of Honneth's theories after The Struggle for Recognition. Second, I analyzed the theories of multiculturalism of Taylor and Kymlicka and Frazer's feministic critical theories, and I accounted for the controversial relationship between them and the Critical Social Theories. In my paper "The Struggle for Recognition in the multicultural age" I analyzed the character of Taylor's multiculturalism, and related it to the observation about the realization of rights in democratic constitutional state in Habermas's theories. In "The problem of political cultures in multiculturalism" I tried to point out the ground concept of Kymlicka's multiculturalism, and compared it with the theory of political cultures in Habermas's theories of democratic constitutional state. The interview with Honneth, "The Recognition-Theoretical Turn in Critical Social Theory" in The Current Situations of Critical Social Theories has referred to the controversy with Frazer from the Honneth's standpoint. Less
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