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The meaning of Historical Rectification in the Reconstruction of Life-World

  • Civil Society and NGO
  • 2005, 3(2), pp.95~120
  • Publisher : The Third Sector Institute
  • Research Area : Social Science > Social Science in general > Other Social Science in general

Young Jai Lee 1

1동국대학교

ABSTRACT

This paper focus on the successful historical rectification. Historical rectification is a necessary process of a democratic reconstruction of life-world for the deepening democracy. Unfortunately, the fact that human rights and constitutional order violations occurred during the transitional periods the Japanese colonial rule and the Korean War. In addition to, the military-authoritarian government in the early 1960's∼1980's, which came into power via a coup d'etat, using a force as a means to catch power. A lot of people who advocated and fought for democracy against the illegal-government were killed and arrested in the process. Historical rectification is a revolution for democratic consolidation by correcting the past wrong political or social structure. In order to reconstruct democratic order in the life-world and civil society, this essay depends on Habermas's discursive democratic theory. However, the presuppose of dichotomy between system and life-world has a fundamental shortcomings. To a successful the project of historical rectification, I argue that life-world should be reconstruct democratically.

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