Article
Spanish
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Abstract
This article provides an analysis of the crisis in the institutions of advanced capitalist societies. This crisis is the result of the preponderance that is instrumental in the direction of the State and the co-existence of citizens. On the one hand, there is a crisis of representativeness of the institutions, which is reflected in the loss of social consensus; on the other hand, a permanent conflict that cannot be resolved in the political space because social interaction is governed by a system of rules that do not allow free citizen practices based on the civil rights of the social community and, consequently, on their need to opt for a much fairer and more equitable society. The development of politics loses its relationship with civic morality; this leads to an organisation of political institutions where the predominance of the instrumental reason is capable of guiding the aims of society, without considering communicative agreements and discursive practices as the most appropriate means of building genuine democratic participation. The analysis and criticisms developed make it possible to consider the dialogical rationality and the pragmatic communication proposed by Habermas as the alternative to the instrumental reason.