Freiheit – Sozialismus – Christentum

Um eine kommunikative Gesellschaft

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Johannes Heinrichs

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Freedom, socialism, Christianity — three seemingly irreconcilable traditions. Heinrichs shows: each one identifies a blind spot in the others. Liberalism overlooks the social nature of freedom. Socialism overlooks the subjective dimension. Christianity overlooks the institutional question.

The alternative is a communicative society: not a blend, but a social form that guarantees formal dialogue structures without imposing content — enabling both individual freedom and structural solidarity.

An early key work (1978) in which Heinrichs first applies his four-level theory (economy, politics, culture, fundamental values) to concrete political questions. For anyone who wants to understand why dialogical pluralism is more than a liberal compromise formula.

Themes

  • Freedom as relational reality: sociality as condition, not opposite, of freedom
  • Negative vs. positive freedom: why emancipation alone is not enough
  • Christianity and socialism: a common root in critiquing atomistic individualism
  • Dialogical pluralism as political model

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Year
2025
Series
Gesammelte Werke (Volume 4)
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Electronic Original Edition: This edition is page-identical to the first edition from 1978 (Bouvier Verlag, Bonn). Page numbers and layout match the original and are fully citable. Only the title page, imprint, and author biography have been updated for this Reflexivity Press edition.

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