Law as a form of social integration according to Habermas
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Integration problems in complex society occur because of the division between the political and economic systems, which use different forms of strategic rationality, based on middle power and money, respectively, and the world of life that uses communicative rationality. In Theory of Communicative Action, Habermas points out that complex society leads to a dead end as systems colonize the world of life. Nonetheless, from Facticity and Validity, he shows how problems of integration can be resolved by the law that uses the two forms of rationality by virtue of the double meaning of its validity. As a result, he can make the translation between the communicative language of the world of life and the strategic language of systems.
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