REPUBLICANISM AND LIBERALISM AS FOUNDATIONS OF MODERNITY

Republikanizam i liberalizam kao temelji Moderne izloženi su u svojoj isprepletenosti i uvjetovanosti kako ona dolazi do izražaja u koncepciji deliberativne demokracije Jurgena Habermasa. Najprije su oba pojma sažeto određena; republikanizam naglašava načelo kreposti i zajedništva, liberalizam otkriva slobodu pojedinca i pojedinih područja kao temeljnu točku razvitka slobodarskog poretka. Zatim se pokazuje kako Habermas u pojmu deliberativne demokracije povezuje liberalizam i republikanizam kao neodvojive dijelove modernog političkog poretka. Naposljetku se prikazuje kako Habermas upotrebljava taj pojam u analizi Europske unije, odnosno u analizi mogućnosti deliberativne demokracije u prostoru europeizacije i globalizacije. Zaključno se ustvrđuje da je u perspektivi europeizacije i globalizacije djelotvorna moć republikanizma izrazito smanjena, a moć neoliberalnih tendencija narasla s izrazito fatalnim posljedicama.Republicanism and liberalism, as foundations of Modernity, are presented in terms of how they are interconnected and condition one another, as expressed in the conception of Jurgen Habermas’ deliberative democracy. Firstly, both concepts are concisely defined; republicanism stresses the principle of virtue and community, while liberalism reveals the freedom of the individual and of particular provinces as the basic point in the development of a free order. Secondly, the author shows how Habermas links the two in the concept of deliberative democracy as inseparable parts of the modern political order. After that, the way is discussed in which Habermas uses the concept in his analysis of the European Union, i.e. of the possibility of deliberative democracy in the space of Europeization and globalization. The author concludes that, viewed from the perspective of Europeization and globalization, the effective potency of republicanism has become significantly reduced, while the potency of neoliberal tendencies has grown, with decidedly fatal consequences