The citizen and the notion of the public realm

Abstract

This text in which Augusto Bolivar interviews Norbert Lechner, deepens over a range of issues such as those of "structural heterogeneity" and "foreign hegemony," the distinction between modernization and modernity, "normative rationality", the tension between will and necessity and between action and conditioning, self-production as community in modern society, the distinctions between the political, state and the public sphere, leading to an analysis of the new citizenship, and finally addresses the challenge of processes of modernity and modernization in the Chilean case, addressing both the tensions and the proposals to solve them.