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BEFORE THE PROCEDURE: The Moral Sources of Action and the Critique of Discourse EthicsWhat makes a person act against injustice? Is political action ultimately driven by rational argument, social interests, inherited values—or by something that precedes them all?Before the Procedure offers a critical reconstruction of one of the central debates in contemporary political theory. Beginning with Jürgen Habermas’s theory of communicative action and discourse ethics, Renato Almeida de Moraes examines a fundamental difficulty in procedural accounts of democracy: a procedure may explain how norms can be justified, but can it explain what motivates subjects to act, resist, and struggle for recognition? In dialogue with Habermas, Charles Taylor, Axel Honneth, George Herbert Mead, John Dewey, Pierre Bourdieu, and major traditions of Brazilian social thought, the book develops an alternative account of political agency. Its central distinction is between procedural morality—concerned with the justification of valid norms—and procedural ethics, understood as the process through which individuals form moral judgments and constitute their practical identities. At the heart of the argument lies a provocative thesis: the deepest source of transformative political action is neither rational calculation nor the mechanical effect of social structure. It is the moral experience of disrespect—the experience through which subjects perceive an injury, interpret it as unjust, and acquire a language capable of transforming suffering into resistance and resistance into collective struggle. The argument moves from Habermas’s communicative rationality to the liberal–communitarian controversy, from theories of Brazilian inequality to Honneth’s theory of recognition. Throughout, the book asks how political theory can explain domination without reducing those subjected to it to passive products of structure, and how democracy can preserve the subjective freedom from which criticism and emancipation become possible. Before the Procedure ultimately proposes a theory of political action that restores the first-person perspective of the actor—the subject who evaluates, experiences disrespect, refuses what has been assigned to them, and acts. Before justification comes moral experience; before the procedure stands the subject capable of demanding that the world be otherwise.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. BEFORE THE PROCEDURE: The Moral Sources of Action and the Critique of Discourse EthicsWhat makes a person act against injustice? Is political action ultimately driven by rational argument, social interests, inherited values-or by something that precedes them all?Before the Procedure offers a critical reconstruction of one of the central debates in contemporary political theory. Beginning with Juergen Habermas's theory of communicative action and discourse ethics, Renato Almeida de Moraes examines a fundamental difficulty in procedural accounts of democracy: a procedure may explain how norms can be justified, but can it explain what motivates subjects to act, resist, and struggle for recognition? In dialogue with Habermas, Charles Taylor, Axel Honneth, George Herbert Mead, John Dewey, Pierre Bourdieu, and major traditions of Brazilian social thought, the book develops an alternative account of political agency. Its central distinction is between procedural morality-concerned with the justification of valid norms-and procedural ethics, understood as the process through which individuals form moral judgments and constitute their practical identities. At the heart of the argument lies a provocative thesis: the deepest source of transformative political action is neither rational calculation nor the mechanical effect of social structure. It is the moral experience of disrespect-the experience through which subjects perceive an injury, interpret it as unjust, and acquire a language capable of transforming suffering into resistance and resistance into collective struggle. The argument moves from Habermas's communicative rationality to the liberal-communitarian controversy, from theories of Brazilian inequality to Honneth's theory of recognition. Throughout, the book asks how political theory can explain domination without reducing those subjected to it to passive products of structure, and how democracy can preserve the subjective freedom from which criticism and emancipation become possible. Before the Procedure ultimately proposes a theory of political action that restores the first-person perspective of the actor-the subject who evaluates, experiences disrespect, refuses what has been assigned to them, and acts. Before justification comes moral experience; before the procedure stands the subject capable of demanding that the world be otherwise. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798172138140
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. One question, asked without evasion: what moves a human being to act politically?Contemporary political theory offers two answers. The subject acts to honor a rational procedure of justification - Habermas's answer. Or the subject acts to realize a shared conception of the good life - the communitarian answer. Before the Procedure contests the sufficiency of both and locates a third source of action, prior to the procedure and prior to inherited value: the moral motivations awakened by the experience of disrespect.What is new in this book- A distinction no one had drawn. Habermas offers a procedural morality: a discourse that tests norms already given. This book proposes a procedural ethics: the intersubjective itinerary - reconstructed with Mead and Honneth - through which the subject constitutes his identity and his values. The first begins where the moral subject is already complete; the second asks how that subject comes to be. The distinction is the book's own, and everything else follows from it.- Habermas taken seriously up to his limit. Not a rejection, but a reconstruction: the linguistic turn, the legal turn of Between Facts and Norms, the controversy with Rawls, the system of rights - read until the theory itself calls for its complement. The fifth category of rights, the book shows, is Habermas's own admission that form without material conditions is empty.- The communitarian and republican critiques sorted, not repeated. Which objections hit the target and which miss it; why Habermas's conflation of republicanism with communitarianism loses a conception of freedom as practice; what Taylor sees that liberalism cannot - and what Taylor cannot explain: how the individual parole breaks the langue that constitutes it.- A normative case study of Brazil. From the slave to the freedman, from the poor free man to the "subcitizen" three sociologies of slavery (Freyre, Fernandes, Carvalho Franco) and the synthesis Jesse Souza built on Bourdieu's habitus - a diagnosis of extraordinary power, and a prison without a door. The book keeps the diagnosis and opens the door.- Recognition as the engine of history. Love, rights, esteem; maltreatment, deprivation, degradation. Honneth's grammar of disrespect is reread as the procedure of moral formation that the discourse principle presupposes and never names - and defended against Nancy Fraser's reduction of recognition to participatory parity.- Dewey's reflexive democracy as the political form that follows: cooperation before consensus, the public as a cognitive medium rather than an argumentative tribunal.For whomScholars and students of political theory, critical theory, sociology of action, Latin American social thought, and the Habermas-Honneth-Fraser debate; readers of Taylor, Pettit, Skinner, Bourdieu, Mead and Dewey; anyone who has suspected that the procedure explains the form of legitimacy but not the energy that makes people claim it.How it is builtFour chapters and a conclusion, each opening with a mapped state of the art and advancing through named objections and named replies; 34 original figures and 9 analytical tables that carry the argument rather than illustrate it; a bibliography of 147 verified works across German critical theory, Anglo-American political philosophy, neo-republicanism, pragmatism, and Brazilian sociology.The thesis in one sentenceThe engine of historical transformation is neither the calculation of reason nor the weight of structure, but the moral experience of disrespect - which becomes struggle when it finds the grammar that makes it sayable.It is before the procedure, on the ground of the moral sources of action, that the fate of democracy is decided. This book goes there. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798172138140
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - BEFORE THE PROCEDURE: The Moral Sources of Action and the Critique of Discourse EthicsWhat makes a person act against injustice Is political action ultimately driven by rational argument, social interests, inherited values-or by something that precedes them all Before the Procedure offers a critical reconstruction of one of the central debates in contemporary political theory. Beginning with Jürgen Habermas's theory of communicative action and discourse ethics, Renato Almeida de Moraes examines a fundamental difficulty in procedural accounts of democracy: a procedure may explain how norms can be justified, but can it explain what motivates subjects to act, resist, and struggle for recognition In dialogue with Habermas, Charles Taylor, Axel Honneth, George Herbert Mead, John Dewey, Pierre Bourdieu, and major traditions of Brazilian social thought, the book develops an alternative account of political agency. Its central distinction is between procedural morality-concerned with the justification of valid norms-and procedural ethics, understood as the process through which individuals form moral judgments and constitute their practical identities. At the heart of the argument lies a provocative thesis: the deepest source of transformative political action is neither rational calculation nor the mechanical effect of social structure. It is the moral experience of disrespect-the experience through which subjects perceive an injury, interpret it as unjust, and acquire a language capable of transforming suffering into resistance and resistance into collective struggle. The argument moves from Habermas's communicative rationality to the liberal-communitarian controversy, from theories of Brazilian inequality to Honneth's theory of recognition. Throughout, the book asks how political theory can explain domination without reducing those subjected to it to passive products of structure, and how democracy can preserve the subjective freedom from which criticism and emancipation become possible. Before the Procedure ultimately proposes a theory of political action that restores the first-person perspective of the actor-the subject who evaluates, experiences disrespect, refuses what has been assigned to them, and acts. Before justification comes moral experience; before the procedure stands the subject capable of demanding that the world be otherwise. Seller Inventory # 9798172138140