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OJEDA A, Jesús D. Deliberaty rationality and political passion in Habermas and Walzer. EPISTEME [online]. 2011, vol.31, n.2, pp.79-94. ISSN 0798-4324.

The aim of this article is to explain the critics that Michael Walzer has done to Jürgen Habermas's deliverative democracy, a model that, for Habermas, is channeled to overcome classical liberalism and civic republicanism, the traditional main currents with great influence on the contemporary political thought. The author of Between facts and norms objected to the first model that it restricts the public space to an instrumental rationality and to a neutral State designed to safeguard private interests and individual rights. To the second, because it limits political action to a barely ethical understanding of an idealistic vision of civic virtues. Habermas argues that both perspectives are necessary but insufficient to strengthen democratic systems in systemic and multicultural societies. Walzer, meanwhile, has questioned the direction of Habermasian deliberative approach because he considers it as a paradigm that grasp political action only within the sphere of argumentative rationality, without taking into account other social practices guided by passion, courage, competitive attitudes and interests.

Palabras clave : political action; liberalism; civic republicanism; deliberation.

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