LA POLÍTICA DELIBERATIVA Y LAS "VIRTUDES" DEL PROCEDIMIENTO. UN ANÁLISIS CRÍTICO DEL PROCEDIMENTALISMO DE HABERMAS1/Deliberative politics and the "virtues" of the procedure. A critical analysis of Habermas' proceduralism

Habermas aims to overcome the debate between liberalism and republicanism by integrating elements from both traditions and trying to outline a procedural understanding of democracy. This article discusses the theoretical implications of the habermasian model by doing a two level critique: first, analyzing the assumptions of the communicative action theory (in which the concept of deliberative politics stands), from Rancière's notion of "disagreement"; and second, it identifies some limitations associated to the concept of deliberative politics itself and the related concept of "political culture". Finally, it postulates that Habermas "proceduralism" is not entirely different from republicanism, bringing out some important theoretical consequences. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]