哈贝马斯论公共领域政治功能的实现

Public Sphere and its Political Functions in Habermas' View

哈贝马斯理想的公共领域就是“市民阶级的公共领域”,或自由主义模式的公共领域。在《公共领域的结构转型》一书中,哈贝马斯详尽分析了市民阶级公共领域获得政治功能的历史进程,并据此论述了市民阶级公共领域之政治功能所具有的实践意义它保证理性地解决政治问题,而不再诉诸赤裸裸的暴力,以社会交往的理性化促成了社会的政治经济活动的理性化;它赋予市民社会自我调节机制以规范化了的地位,并以自身坚持的公共性原则,成就了一种适合市民社会需要的国家权力。

The ideal public sphere for Habermas is ＂ bourgeois public sphere＂, or a liberal public. In The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere （ 1961 ）, Habermas analyzes in detail the process of bourgeois public sphere gaining political functions, and discusses its practical significance： （ 1 ）instead of using violence, we can solve political problems through reason, and achieve rationalization of political and economical activities through the rationalization of communication; （2） it endows self-regulatory mechanism of civil society with regularized status, and realizes a kind of state power adapting to civil society through publicity.