Book
French
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Abstract
The concept of public sphere is one of the solutions proposed by today’s political philosophy to redefine democracy and the present organization of our societies. To evaluate this solution, it is necessary to go back to the debate opposing Habermas and Luhmann, on the meaning of modem rationalization and the procedural character of social organization. The authors show the indequacies of both conceptualizations of that procedural character and propose a more adequate theory for thinking the institutional transformations needed by the present crisis of our democratic societies.