Über den Wert der Demokratie

The political ontologically precedes the state's architectonics. Beyond institutional proceduralism, democracy articulates itself as a totality of social practice. In its genealogy, it relies on a dialectical relationship with life-world subsystems and the normative ground of its pre-political prerequisites. Its teleology demands the humanistic genesis of the subject and the conscious shaping of political culture. Religion requires democratic translation, and market dynamics must be subordinated to the ethical duty of social cooperation. A microphysics of the democratic spirit must permeate the capillaries of social practice as an immanent principle.