Feminist Reflections on Habermas's Communicative Action

The Need for an Inclusive Political Theory

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ID2397732
AutoresMojca Pajnik (0000-0001-5089-1559, THE PEACE INSTITUTE, INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL AND POLITICAL STUDIES, LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA, autor correspondente)
Ano2006
Volume9
Fascículo3
Páginas385-404
Data de publicação2006-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEuropean Journal of Social Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1368-4310 • E-ISSN: 1461-7137
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1368431006065719
OpenAlexW2128999735
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas11
Referências citadas29

This article explores critiques and reformulations of Habermas's concept of communicative action as presented by feminist authors. Numerous articles considering communicative action as developed by Habermas from a feminist perspective have been published, but no systematic analysis of these arguments exists. This article aims to fill the gap by providing an examination of various readings of communicative action from a feminist standpoint. If, on one hand, the article collects the dispersed feminist critique of communicative action and offers insight into feminist argumentation, its aim is, on the other hand, to reflect the critique itself. Therefore, attention is devoted both to feminist readings of communicative action, as well as to the potential shortcomings of these readings that are detected by a closer examination of Habermas's own works. The article's aim is also to show how feminist critics, in their interpretations and reformulations of communicative action, focus on an explication of the inclusive elements of communicative action

Argumentation theory · Communicative action · Critical theory · Epistemology · Explication · Feminist philosophy · Social science · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Philosophy · Political theory and Gramsci · Social Media and Politics