81 definitions
911 (n.) is an event about which we will know only in retrospect if it implies a break or merely confirms a long known vulnerability of our complex civilization.
911 (n.) is the first historic world event in the strictest sense, having literally taken place in front of the universal eyewitness of a global public.
Action (n.) is reduced to communicative action and is both symbolic and communicative.
Agency (n.) is enacted and realized in the public sphere through political deliberation. It is characterized as rational and autonomous, and originates with the spontaneous activity of an ego that desires autonomy.
America (n.) is a land of intellectual awakening in a way that britain has never been.
Autonomy (n.) is the ability and willingness to participate openly in conversation, saying that it requires understanding one's own values, interests, and needs.
Civil disobedience (n.) is part of the communication between the weak and strong publics of civil and political society. It is important in that it serves to reassure minorities that decisions are not fixed.
Civil society (n.) is a form of economic organization whereby activities formerly confined to the household framework emerged into the public sphere. Economic activity became private but was oriented towards the public commodity market.
Civil society (n.) is a system in early capitalism whereby household production moved increasingly into a more public system of exchange.
Civil society (n.) is the 'nervous system' of democracy in that it promotes deliberative spaces where citizens could develop a public opinion independent enough of entities that hold disproportionate power to be able to hold these powers accountable.
Civil society (n.) is the spontaneously created associations, organizations and movements which find, take up, condense and amplify the resonance of social problems in private life, and pass it on to the political realm or public sphere.
Communication (n.) is involving speakers postulating validity claims that are ratified by hearers by an acceptance or by a rejection.
Communicative action (n.) is a form of communication (or speech) in which the validity of what is said is naively presupposed in order to exchange information.
Complexity (n.) is a state inherent in the world itself and also a set of problems that systems themselves engender in the pursuit of certain goals.