Concept
Foucault–Habermas debate
Overview
public discourse about power in society
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The struggle for the supremacy of the State over other forms of organization was directed against the power of minor districts, provinces, principalities, against the dispersion of power among feudal lords as well as, in some countries, against the pretensions of an ecclesiastic potentate. The "State" represents the conspicuous culmination of the great movement of social integration and consolidation taking place in…
John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy
Close in meaning to Foucault–Habermas debate; the term itself is not named.
Political power, which is developed similarly, but earlier than philosophy, from religion, exhibits the onesidedness, which in the actual world may infect its _implicitly_ true Idea, as demoralisation. Plato, in common with all his thinking contemporaries, perceived this demoralisation of democracy and the defectiveness even of its principle; he set in relief accordingly the underlying principle of the state, but…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Philosophy of Mind
Close in meaning to Foucault–Habermas debate; the term itself is not named.
On one hand, thinking deprived of its normal course takes refuge in academic specialism, comparable in its way to what is called scholasticism. On the other hand, the physical agencies of publicity which exist in such abundance are utilized in ways which constitute a large part of the present meaning of publicity: advertising, propaganda, invasion of private life, the “featuring” of passing incidents in a way which…
John Dewey, The public and its problems
States what Foucault–Habermas debate is.
Related ideas
- Biopolitics
- Jürgen Habermas
- Social action
- Modernity
- Nancy Fraser
- Communicative rationality
- Reason
- Michel Foucault
- Democracy
- Ethics
- Genealogy (philosophy)
Place in the tradition
Part of Outline of ethics.