Communicative Action & Dialogical Ethics

Habermas & Foucault

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6355387
AutoresRomand Coles (autor correspondente)
Ano1992
Volume25
Fascículo1
Páginas71-94
Data de publicação1992-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPolity (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0032-3497 • E-ISSN: 1744-1684
EditoraUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/3235020
OpenAlexW2312480066
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8

The debate between Habermas and Foucault has been seen as one between communicative reason and nihilism, but this article argues that it is more usefully understood as a debate between communicative reason and dialogical ethics. Habermas's rhetorically delivered rationality, the author contends, harbors dangerous pressures that are at odds with its most profound insights and lead to normative, methodological, and empirical problems when it comes to understanding new social movements. Alternatively, he insists, themes in Foucault's work provide a better position from which to formulate a dialogical ethics that more adequately affirms both difference and solidarity. At the same time, it offers greater insight into several important new social movements and gestures toward a politics less tyrannized by consensus imperatives

Communicative action · Critical theory · Dialogical self · Discourse ethics · Epistemology · Normative · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Rationality · Social science · Sociology · Solidarity · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Law · Law · Philosophy