Los alcances cosmopolitas y universales de la propuesta de Habermas sobre el rol de la religión en la esfera pública

Abstract

Habermas has presented a normative account of the role of religion in the public sphere of a deliberative democracy. In my paper I want to show that Habermaś account is not limited to the "national borders of a deliberative democracy" since it entails global challenges to the (emerging) world society. My paper will have the following structure: First, I will present Habermas remarks on the current post-national constellation and its untamed global capitalism. Second, I will make explicit the cosmopolitan scope of Habermaś perspective. Finally, on the basis of the two prior sections, I will present some questionings related to the alleged universal nature of Habermaś proposal, especially pertaining to the debates that take place within the institutional spaces of democracies.