Abstract
The article is a comprehensive comparison of Foucault and Habermas which focuses on their distinctive styles of critical theory. The article maintains that Foucault's virtue ethical understanding of aesthetic self-realization as a form of resistance to normalizing practices provides counterpoint to Habermas's more juridical approach to institutional justice and the critique of ideology. The article contains an extensive discussion of their respective treatments of speech action, both strategic and communicative, and concludes by addressing Foucault's understanding of parrhesia as a non-discursive form of truth-telling.
| Original language | American English |
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| Journal | Philosophy: Faculty Publications and Other Works |
| State | Published - Jan 1 2005 |
Keywords
- Foucault
- Habermas
- critical theory
- rationality
- enlightenment
- aesthetics
- virtue ethics
Disciplines
- Aesthetics
- Continental Philosophy
- Epistemology
- Ethics and Political Philosophy
- Philosophy
- Philosophy of Language
- Political Theory
- Politics and Social Change
- Social Influence and Political Communication
- Sociology of Culture
- Speech and Rhetorical Studies