Anais do 19º Colóquio Habermas e 10º Colóqui de Filosofia da Informação.

The Colloquiums were held from September 19th to 21st, 2023. This year, the biggest challenge for Brazilians was and continues to be the rescue of democracy. that restores dignity, strengthens citizenship, reduces inequalities and guarantees well-being. It is a practical task to which we must direct our critical thinking. The central theme of the Colloquia was “Democracy in Reconstruction: Justice, social and environmental sustainability”. The issue of the crisis of democracy, particularly the tendency towards the legitimacy of crises in advanced capitalist societies, has been part of Habermas's thinking, at least since the publication of his work Crisis of Legitimacy in Late Capitalism (1971). However, when addressing this issue in the 1970s, the emphasis is on the crisis tendencies inherent in the process of development of capitalism as a result of the increasing globalization of capitalist commercial relations between countries and the consequent weakening of the State to fulfill certain tasks. with the guarantee of fundamental rights, which generates, among other things, the loss of loyalty of the masses and deficits in legitimacy. At this point, Habermas only begins to sketch the broad outlines of the theory of communicative action, particularly with the introduction of the distinction between work and interaction in Technique and Science as 'Ideology' (1968). The publication of Theory of Communicative Action (1981) introduces the concepts of articulated aspects of the system and the lived world, and the vision of the process of growth of instrumental rationality, through the colonization of the world lived by the system and the consequent legitimacy deficits that this type of process entails.The growing influence of rationality with regard to ends in the different spheres of human life steals more and more space from the lived world and results in pathologies, social deficits and legitimacy deficits.